Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig ...

There are two kinds of spiders that make webs indoors during the winter, and both are quite common. And neither is native to ...

Two species of spiders have been observed for the first time weaving larger “decoy” models of themselves to protect themselves from predators. The findings mark the first instance of any creature ...

What’s scarier than a spider? A really big spider, of course. A newfound defensive tactic takes advantage of this idea: researchers documented spiders building giant spiderlike silhouettes on their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although the word “spider” may elicit a “yuck” or an “ew” from many readers, the true nature of these oft-feared critters is not ...

You probably think of snakes as fearsome predators that sit near the top of the food chain. While that is often true, snakes ...