Cave spiders use their webs in a way that hasn't been seen before. Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves.

A team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with cavers, has uncovered a remarkable trove of ...

A team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with cavers, has uncovered a large number of eyeless, ...

A new zombie pathogen has been discovered in Ireland. This insidious fungus infects cave spiders and alters their behavior to help spread its spores to new victims.

Islandiana lewisi, found in a single cave in southern Indiana Dr. Marc Milne You might expect to hear about a new species discovered in, say, a remote jungle or a far-flung desert. But especially ...

Surprisingly, there is at least one species of wolf spider that is a troglobite (the animal form of troglodyte, meaning cave-dweller). These animals don't use webs but rather hunt down prey.

Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into “zombies.” The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death ...

The tallest of the cave’s crystals, one of the largest in the world, weighs a whopping 12 tonnes (13.2 tons) and stands 1 meter (3.2 feet) wide and 11.4 meters (37.4 feet) tall – that’s six ...

I. lewisi is so new that it doesn’t yet have a common name.The spider is about the width of a crayon tip, and Milne collected several of them from postage stamp-sized webs built between the cave ...