Spiders filmed climbing through the sky
If you don’t like spiders, don’t watch this video, because it is truly terrifying for arachnophobes. A man in Brazil filmed thousands of spiders seemingly skittering across the sky. They’re […]
If you don’t like spiders, don’t watch this video, because it is truly terrifying for arachnophobes. A man in Brazil filmed thousands of spiders seemingly skittering across the sky. They’re […]
It turns out California is an Eden of biodiversity for spiders. Director of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History and taxonomist Jason Bond has identified 33 new species in […]
Remember this crazy decoy-building spider? Of course you do, you couldn’t forget something so awesome. Turns out that Destin, the guy behind the Smarter Every Day video series, was on […]
If a kid is clever enough to stuff their pillows under the covers in vague approximation of their body shape when they sneak out at night to egg a house […]
Nefertiti was a spider that boldly went where only a few spiders went before, so it’s safe to say she had a pretty full life. The 10-month old “Johnson jumper” died […]
Continuing in the let’s-just-steal-this-from-nature vein, researchers are Boston University, MIT and Tufts University are looking at spider silk. It’s one of the strongest substances on Earth, even stronger than steel, and […]
If Charlotte the spider were more than a children’s book character, she might one day be able to get a job in Silicon Valley. That’s because scientists and tech researchers […]
A 100-million year old wasp saw its final moments in the waiting jaws of an orb-weaver spider, but things didn’t exactly play out that way. Just as the juvenile spider […]