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

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 ...

It turns out that the spiders used mimicry as a defense mechanism against predators ... this magical transformation to ants. Ants have six legs and two long antennae, while spiders have eight ...

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