Spiders ingeniously consume their old webs to recycle vital proteins and nutrients, a process crucial for energy conservation ...

Spiders are amazing creatures, and orb-weaving spiders make some of the most intricate structures in nature. Their ...

Why do spider webs have zigzag designs? New research reveals how they act like vibration alarms to help the spider sense its ...

How do spiders go about this delicate dance, what senses do they use to capture their prey? Some spiders are ground dwelling while others build complicated and beautiful webs. Dr. Charles Walcott ...

Spiders that hunt in packs use web vibrations to coordinate their attacks, allowing them to kill prey hundreds of times larger than they could on their own. Of the 50,000 known spider species, just ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang goes on a nighttime hike in search of spiders, with Lisa Gonzalez of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.