Credit: Preston Innovation Laboratory, Rice University Spider legs only have muscles for retraction, while extension is achieved via a hydraulic mechanism. In the spider’s body, a chamber filled ...

The results provide evidence for the hypothesis that spiders crouch to sense differences in web frequencies to locate prey ...

Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...

Holding a net stretched between its four front legs, it springs down onto the ground to ensnare insect prey, making use of its hypersensitive, night-vision eyes—the largest of any spider, at nearly 5 ...