Faye Yap, a mechanical engineering graduate student, and her adviser, Daniel Preston, saw the spider and speculated about why a dead arachnid’s legs bend inward and remain that way. They learned ...

The hackled orb weaver, native to the western United States, is a spider so small and delicate it can perch atop your finger.

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the ...

Daddy-long-legs, which look like spiders with thin legs much longer than their bodies, are generally seen as harmless. But according to many versions of a popular rumor, daddy-long-legs are ...