Dive into the deadly world of venomous spiders as we compare the infamous Black Widow to the fearsome Funnel-web. Discover which of these arachnids holds the crown for the most dangerous bite and why.

According to new research published last week in Current Biology, a North American spider species can change how its webs transmit vibrations. The authors have reported that spiders in urban ...

Spiders are known to learn about predators, prey, potential mates, and their overall environment from vibrations carried by their webs. Funnel-weaving spiders in particular connect their webs to ...

The new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, shows the webs of funnel-weaving spiders transmit vibrations differently in response to increased local noise.

Here, Daniel Rubinoff and colleagues describe a newly discovered Hawai'ian predatory caterpillar species –the "bone collector" – which lives exclusively within spider webs tucked into tree hollows and ...