"Spiders do not usually run towards people when they sense danger. This would be like humans running towards something like Godzilla," said spider scientist Sebastian Echeverri.

Kate Laskowski of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin and Jonathan Pruitt of Pittsburgh University studied social spiders (Stegodyphus mimosarum) that were ...

Inhabitants of Sao Thome das Letras in Brazil witnessed a "rain of spiders" as the Parawixia bistriata species spun an elaborate silk web during its reproductive and hunting phase. These social ...