LiveScience Topics: Spiders

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.