While exploring a meadow, I noticed something brightly colored moving through the dry grass. It turned out to be a yellow orb-weaver—a small, fast spider that's surprisingly aggressive when disturbed.

Many animals, including humans, are known to dine on snakes. Mammals, lizards, birds and even snakes engage in snake eating.

Every species on earth reproduces. They do it in different ways, with different levels of success, but it’s the only strategy to ensure that the genes from one generation are passed to the next. This ...

You’re walking back to the house at dusk. Thinking about dinner. Not thinking about spiders. Then you hit a web. Across the face. There’s a big shape hanging in it. If you spend a lot of time outside, ...