Many types of spiders float in the air. Using a technique called ballooning, they release silk strands and move through the air. Although spiders’ ballooning technique has been studied before, its...
The Hawaiian stick spiders have almost the same physical forms on different islands no matter how far apart they are. It is a prime example of adaptive radiation. Adaptive radiation is a...
The Hawaiian stick spiders have almost the same physical forms on different islands no matter how far apart they are. It is a prime example of adaptive radiation. Adaptive radiation is a...
Astronomers have spotted new landforms on Martian surface with the help of citizen scientists. These formations look similar to spiders and are based on multiple networks of cracks but they are...
Spiders are very common. Look around you and you will probably find one clinging to its web. A recent study showed that spiders were found in 100% of homes and 68% of bathrooms. Even in three...
A new study says that spiders eat up to 800 million metric tons of insects every year - equal to the weight of around 100 elephants. These estimates are astonishing, given the fact that all humans...
Scientists have spent decades trying to mimic spider silk but their efforts to spin silk without spiders often resulted in a product that was far from being the original.Now, a team of Swedish...
The north pole of Mars is dotted with unusual spider-like features and now researchers have figured out how those features were formed in Martian surface.The spiders on Mars may be the larger...
Using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data, researchers have detected cumulative growth of erosion-carved troughs that may be infant versions of larger features known as Martian "spiders...
Jumping spiders can perceive airborne sound despite not having ears or ear drums, finds a new study.The family of jumping spiders includes about 5,800 species - 13 percent of all spider species -...