Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up photo of a funnel-web spider on its web looking at the camera. There seems to be no ideal number of legs. Humans have ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

When a spider crawled into the corner of a research lab at Rice University in Houston, Texas and curled up to die, it surely never imagined that it would become the inspiration for researchers’ mad ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Hydraulic pressure controls spider leg movements, allowing the arachnids to straighten and curl their ...

Learn more about one of the UK's most common spiders, the daddy long-legs (cellar spider), that you'll find in your home all year round.

Eight spindly legs are one of a spider's most distinctive features. And yet these resilient arachnids have been known to survive with over half of them missing. Jul Smith found one such specimen ...

Anyone who has watched a daddy longlegs spider move across a wall or garden floor has probably noticed something that feels slightly off. Even though it clearly has eight legs, it often appears to ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...