Today we have a fun and festive Halloween craft that is perfect for this time of year and is sure to be a big hit with the entire family. It’s not only a fun and easy craft, but it’s also a ...

Spider Webs and Drugs The regularity of the delicate structures made by spiders is one of the wonders of nature. Now abnormalities in these patterns are used to study the mechanism by which drugs ...

It's believed these knots lend their webs the odd ribbon-like structure and sticky texture, enabling a better foothold, and ...

Normally, food webs consist of a number of food chains meshed together. Each food chain is a descriptive diagram including a series of arrows, each pointing from one species to another ...

Black widows are solitary year-round except during this violent mating ritual. These spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a cocoon with hundreds of eggs. Spiderlings disperse soon ...

How do spiders make such intricate webs? Don’t get too tangled up about it. In this one-minute video, our Ask Smithsonian host, Eric Schulze, weaves his way to the answer. Explore Subscribe ...

You have probably admired more than once the almost perfect beauty of spider webs. Do you know why they have a circular structure? There are several reasons for this. Today, scientists recognize about ...

Massive spider-webs stretching across trees and paddocks have formed near towns in Australia recently hit by floods. Residents in Victoria's Gippsland region say the gossamer-like veils appeared ...

Secondary production of species in multi-species assemblages can be used to quantify bottom-up linkages with flow webs, top-down linkages with ingestion/production webs and trophic position ...

Food chains show the feeding relationships between organisms. Food webs show how all the food chains in an ecosystem interact. A food chain shows the feeding relationship between organisms.

Food chains show the feeding relationships between organisms. Food webs show how all the food chains in an ecosystem interact. A food chain shows the feeding relationship between organisms.

Black-crowned night-heron. This predator is adapted to hunt at night. In the French Guiana this is one of the major night heron species with its cousin the Yellow-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax ...