A spider no larger than a coin has upended what scientists thought they knew about natural materials. Discovered in the wilds of Madagascar, Darwin’s bark spider spins silk tougher than Kevlar, a very ...

High above the rivers of Madagascar, a small arachnid is quietly rewriting what I thought was possible in nature. The Darwin’s bark spider, already famous for its giant orb webs, has now been ...

Deep in Madagascar’s rainforests lives a spider no bigger than a coin, easy to miss and rarely noticed. Yet this tiny creature is responsible for one .

Different species of spiders produce different silks that serve different purposes, from floating on air to cradling eggs. The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...