A strange funnel-shaped web appears in the Arizona landscape, looking like something designed to catch more than just insects. The structure is an ambush trap, built to pull prey into a hidden tunnel ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider delivers venom that attacks the nervous system within minutes, though its toxins are now helping treat neurological diseases.

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Venom from the deadly funnel-web spider could soon be the key to preventing damage from heart attacks and strokes, as a “promising” Queensland trial enters its first clinical phase for the treatment.

Across much of Australia, people start talking about “spider season” as the weather warms and webs seem to appear overnight in gardens, sheds, and corners of the house. At the same time, experts issue ...

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In a narrow passage deep inside an underground cavern between Albania and Greece, scientists pushed through waist-deep black water and clung to ropes to make a startling discovery. In the beams of ...

Ms. Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. I was sure our window spider was long gone. This year the first hard ...

Istvan Urak via AP An undated image shows spider webs on a wall in Sulfur Cave, on the Greek-Albanian border. What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of ...

(AP) — What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published ...