This week in science: what your brain's doing when you zone out; the world's largest spider web; game over for simulation ...

The brown tarantula is about the size of an apple or orange. University of Missouri-St. Louis scientist Becky Hansis-O’Neill ...

Lake Chicot State Park is a paradise for our feathered friends, hosting over 200 species throughout the year. The park sits along the Mississippi Flyway, one of North America’s major bird migration ...

Tucked away in the northwestern corner of Missouri, Big Lake State Park centers around a stunning 625-acre oxbow lake – a curved body of water formed when the mighty Missouri River decided to chart a ...

The world's largest spider web has been found in an underwater cave on the Greece-Albania border, according to a recent ...

A remote cave system nestled along the border of Greece and Albania has revealed what may be the largest known spider colony ...

A jumping spider discriminates familiar from novel conspecifics for hours, indicating recognition and long-term memory in a miniature-brained, asocial arthropod, highlighting learning and internal ...

In a remarkable display of nature’s wonders, scientists have unearthed the world’s largest spider web in a pitch-black cave ...

By searching through museum specimens, scientists found two new, and rather peculiar, spiders species from St Helena: one ...