The Trichopelma grande boasts striking patterns and unique feather-like leg hairs, a testament to the region's biodiversity.

A new tarantula species, Trichopelma grande, has been discovered in Cuba with its unique traits, rare habitat, and ...

Spider embryo with a loss of the waist region upon knockdown of the gene waistless. Hoechst staining with fluorescent stereomicroscopy. Credit must be given to the creator.

But he has a good reason. Spider webs, it turns out, trap more than unwitting bugs. The sticky surfaces also contain a bounty of genetic materials from dozens of animal species who live nearby ...

No one knows why some people develop spider veins and others don't, but genetics, the hormone estrogen and possibly the hormone progesterone are thought to play a role. Spider veins appear more ...

In a recent study, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were able to gene-hack a strain of bacteria to turn wasteful polyethylene plastic into a spider silk-like material as strong as ...

Spider silk has a tensile strength five times ... her with a lens through which to examine ethical questions about genetic engineering in general. In Our Transgenic Future, she writes in a self ...