Spider silk is considered a very robust natural biomaterial, with research finding it stronger than steel. Harvard neurobiologist Paul Shamble and his colleagues decided to examine the silk produced ...

(jumping spiders’) large eyes, prodigious jumping ability, often brilliant colors and cocky, inquisitive activity make them ...

The WSC, based at the Natural History Museum of Bern in the Swiss capital, said the 50,000th spider registered is the Guriurius minuano, which belongs to the Salticidae family of jumping spiders ...