Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 'unseen world' of microscopic engineering creates immediate curiosity. The high-speed motion of golden silk emerging from the ...

A yellow garden spider turns a live cricket into a silk-wrapped bundle in the time it takes to blink, and what happens next is even more unsettling than it looks.

A pair of arachnologists with the University of Toronto Scarborough reports that in addition to its other ways of capturing and feeding on prey, candy-striped spiders also wrap up and feed on sleeping ...

The dexterity of this black wood spider is remarkable. A large dragonfly had already gotten caught in her web, and she had killed it. Now, she is using silk to wrap it up, a behavior spiders use to ...