Spiders are well known for the variety of methods they use to capture prey. Some are agile jumpers that pounce on their ...

Slingshot spiders use sound-sensitive hairs to launch catapult-like webs, capturing prey with lightning speed and efficiency.

Armed with a net and trident, fisherman gladiators were a staple of Rome's gladiatorial games. Their best chance of survival ...

Most spider orb webs are static: the spiders weave them and fix them in place and then wait for prey to fly into the webs.

Regardless of what the studio insists on calling it internally, Sony’s Spider-Man Universe of live-action features will ...

Instead, they take action. These arachnids–also called ray spiders–pull the center of their flat web back to form a cone with themselves at the tip of the cone. They then keep the net in place ...

Sony purchased the rights to Spider-Man in 1999, who has become the most successful character in the industry since. The ...

The black widows were an early demonstration of a fundamental principle about the spider world. "There's a huge diversity of ...