Find out everything there is to know about spiders and stay updated on the latest spider news with the comprehensive articles, interactive features and spider pictures at LiveScience.com. Learn more about these fascinating arthropod as scientists continue to make amazing discoveries about spiders.
Explore Spiders
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- Sneaky Spider Skips Long Sex Dance
- Some male spiders must court females for more than an hour to avoid a premature death.
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- Oldest Known Spider Webs Discovered
- Scientists discover ancient silken threads from a spider web embalmed in amber.
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- Nepotism Rules Among Spiders
- Related spiders cooperate better and are more efficient at foraging for food than those that aren't related, a new study says.
More Spiders News and Information
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(Mostly) Vegetarian Spiders Negotiate with Ants

Unlike most spiders, this Central American jumping spider species feeds on leaf-tips, rather than on insects - at least most of the time!
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Bug Plays Dead, Sacrifices Neighbor
Some beetles play possum, and for the same reason that possums do: to avoid attention from predators.
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New Spiders and Frogs Discovered in Papua New Guinea
Expedition in Papua New Guinea finds new species of spiders, frogs and geckoes.
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Spider Bite Cures Paralyzed Man: Miracle or Bad Reporting?
News reports of a man walking again thanks to a spider bite are likely wrong.
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Very Strange: The Spider Sex Chronicles
Spiders display bizarre behaviors when they’re having sex.
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Small Spiders Get More Action
Big male spiders may outperform smaller males in head-to-head mating contests, but it’s the smaller ones that get more action because they mature faster.
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Unraveling the Wonders of Spider Silk
A researcher collects spider silk strands and combs through glands to find the genetic blueprints for silk making.
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Spider Success! Weightless Webs Spun in Space
A pair of orb-weaver spiders on the International Space Station succeeded in spinning webs in space after failing a day earlier.
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Video - Sounds of Sex

While mating, female Physocylus globosus spiders emit high-frequency squeaks to let males know what they should be doing.
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Creepy Cannibalism: Why Female Spiders Eat Mates
If males are small, they're easier to catch and therefore more likely to be prey.
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Sneaky Spider Named for Rocker Neil Young
A new spider species is named in honor of Neil Young.
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How Spider-Man Compares to the Real Thing
Some of Spiderman's webby abilities are ripped straight from nature.
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Huge Claw Belonged to 8-foot Sea Scorpion
The giant fossil claw of the largest creepy-crawly found yet has just been uncovered.
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Why Some Animals Eat Their Offspring
Study finds some possible factors that may drive parents to eat own young.
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Ancient Spider Guts Revealed in 3-D
Digital images show the insides of a 53 million-year-old fossilized spider.
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Female Jumping Spiders Risk Being Eaten to Make Babies
Virgin female jumping spiders choose bigger, more dangerous males for their "first time."
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Mysterious 'Fairyland' Spider Web Found
200 Yards of spider webs cover trail in Texas park.
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Doctor Finds Spider in Boy's Ear
Boy with earache had spiders living in ear.
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Natural Viagra: Spider Bite Causes Erection
The bite hurts, but the side effect has its upside.
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Tiny Creatures Rediscover the Joy of Sex
Tiny relatives of the spider were long ago stripped by evolution for the need to have sex. Now they're doing it again anyway.
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Before They Fly, Spiders Check the Weather
Spiders love to fly, Hundreds can touch down in an acre of land on a day when conditions are right. But first they have to put a finger to the wind.
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