In a dank cave below the Albanian-Greek border, scientists have uncovered a spider web that’s technically big enough to catch ...

A team of scientists has found an “extraordinary” yet skin-crawling colony of more than 110,000 spiders. A dozen researchers, ...

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Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs.