Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their webs. Spiders didn't begin their journey on Earth in the same way as they ...

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Arachnophobes may be alarmed to hear that scientists have identified 55 new species of Australian wishbone spiders. Coming from the same group as tarantulas and funnel-web spiders, wishbone spiders ...