Researchers have documented for the first time a bizarre mating behavior among tiny spider-like creatures in which males "undress" the females before copulating. A team of scientists observed the ...

Scientists have discovered that female spiders that usually eat their mates after sex choose to act as if they're dead so that males will trust them enough to copulate. According to a paper published ...

Scientists have discovered a new way male spiders avoid being eaten after sex: catapulting away. After mating, some species of female spiders kill and eat their partners. The catapulting spiders are ...

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Researchers have determined the cause of an unusual behavior in funnel weaving spiders that involves the females curling up as if they're dead before having sex. When you purchase through links on our ...

A mother's love is eternal. Or at least encapsulated in a fossilized tree resin that's 99 million years old. Adult female spiders – now extinct – were discovered protecting their already-hatched ...

When it comes to spider love, female widow spiders hold the key to attracting mates, potentially adjusting their web's attractiveness to lure males, according to new research. A study led by Simon ...

Maybe they just needed some contouring and a little more mascara? Researchers have found a strange-but-effective tool to test the theory that male jumping spiders evolved colorful stripes to ward off ...