A few weeks ago, I resurrected a fly pattern that you’ll probably recognize if you are among that group of now middle-aged fly fishers who took up the sport in the 1970s. We called it the “spider.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spiders such as this Argiope bruennichi sometimes adorn webs with zigzagging stabilimenta. (Pierluigi Rizzo (member of Aracnofilia ...

Archaeologists working on the Danish island of Bornholm discovered around 300 rocks engraved during the Stone Age. But archaeologists have no idea what the rocks may represent. The rocks are ...

Every year Halloween enthusiasts adorn their homes with synthetic cobwebs. But humans aren’t the only creatures who decorate their abodes. Spiders bedeck their webs with “stabilimenta”—various woven ...