The post-ice cap Earth of 1995’s Waterworld presented a lot of unique challenges for Kevin Costner's Mariner and the rest of the characters, as they tried to eke out a living on the open water. Not ...

Spider silk can be scary enough to insects to act as a pest repellent, researchers say. These findings could lead to a new way to naturally help protect crops, scientists added. Spiders are among the ...

How do you decorate the underside of a leaf? Why you hang your eggs there of course. How do you capture tasty river morsels? Well you'd want to make a net. You need a miracle substance to make this ...

I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

Not everything that spins a web is a spider. If you find delicate webs that are intricately spun underneath a log in the forest, you may be looking at the work of a webspinner. A video from the ...

A close look at a viral spider video reveals how web-building spiders use silk to restrain, transport, and consume large prey.

Some of nature’s most mesmerizing works of art might just be hanging in your backyard. The artist is an orb weaver spider.