We're in what I think of as a golden time of year. Trees are possibly the most sensible of living things. They have now stored enough energy for the year and, because of that, give up on ...

Some animals were born to fly, but most were not. Humans have no business in the air but we've come up with a number of ways to get there, and now it seems that spiders are following very close behind ...

Spiders don’t have wings, but they can fly across entire oceans on long strands of silk. For more than a century, scientists thought it was the wind that carried them, sometimes as high as a jet ...

Research published Thursday ended the long running debate if spiders can use the silk they weave as a parachute to fly through the wind or if flight is powered by static electricity reacting with silk ...

You may have heard about some not-so-itsy-bitsy venomous flying spiders that can soar with the winds, love to eat butterflies and are already appearing along the East Coast. They're called Joro ...