Spiders

Orb-web spiders use their body color and web decorations to masquerade as bird droppings to avoid predators.

A spider's fangs are natural injection needles, making them perfectly suited for piercing the skeletons of their prey and delivering a kiss of venom.

Certain female spiders are infamous for eating their partners after sex, but some actually pounce on suitors, fangs first, before mating ever occurs.

Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of more people than spiders. The eight-legged beasts boast a menacing appearance, and some of them pack a deadly, poisonous bite.

A tiny, unassuming spider in the Peruvian Amazon uses its entire web as a slingshot to capture slow-moving insects such as mosquitoes.

Strange circular towers found in the Amazon jungle were made by spiders to hatch their eggs, new research found. But the spider species that made the towers remains a mystery.

Scientists discovered an "odd-clawed" spider that traps its prey using a fascinating ladder-shaped web.

The unobtrusive little arachnid is a wandering spider that catches prey without weaving a web.

Spiders have spatial learning abilities, new research finds.

Every continent except Antarctica boasts spiders that eat bats.

The electrical conductivity of the new fibers is on par with copper, gold and aluminum wires.

Not all spider eyes are created equal.

Above average temperatures across the nation led to more insects.

It's a tarantula the size of a dinner plate, known to eat birds.

Snakes eat birds, which eat spiders. No birds, more spiders.

What we do know about spiders and other arachnids: They are very diverse.