At a recent family gathering, someone discovered a spider outside the window and everyone made quite a ruckus. All except me wanted to kill the spider, even though it was outside and not inside and ...

Source: William Eberhard, used with permission. Spider webs can be beautiful, intricate, and deadly—but what can they tell us about the spiders who build them? There are over 3,100 species of ...

People tend to associate intelligence with brain size. And as a general guideline, this makes sense: more brain cells, more mental capabilities. Humans and many of the other animals we’ve come to ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – Three venomous spiders found in the University of Michigan’s Shapiro Undergraduate Library led to the library being temporarily and mistakenly closed on Sunday and Monday. Here is that ...