A new funnel-web spider species discovered in north-east Tasmania has been named after the museum researcher who found it.

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NASA’s Curiosity rover has just unveiled its first close-up images of a bizarre and fascinating feature on Mars – large, web-like structures that resemble giant spiderwebs. These unusual formations, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped its first images of web-like "boxwork" features on the surface of Mars. The zig-zagging ...

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In “Spider-Prowler,” from Spider-Verse vs. Venomverse co-writer Mat Groom and artist Federico Vicentini (Miles Morales: Spider-Man), the Web-Heart travels to the New York of Earth-2501.

Spider veins, also known as telangiectasias or thread veins, resemble spider webs or tree branches. They occur when damage to blood vessels close to the skin's surface causes them to widen.

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they had ever seen.

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say.

This causes the web to stretch and form into a more cone-like appearance. Then, when the spiders spot a possible meal, they release the line, flinging—or slingshotting—the web and itself ...

Unlike other catapulting spiders, for instance, the slingshot spiders don’t seem to rely on their prey actually touching the web to spring an attack. So researchers Sarah Han and Todd Blackledge ...

Scientists in Australia are about to begin a clinical trial for a heart attack medication that was originally derived from the venom of the K’gari funnel web spider.