A plucky little spider has once again proved that size doesn't matter by taking on—and beating—a much larger venomous snake, in a very Australian telling of the story of David and Goliath. The spindly ...

A field of spigots is seen in this electron microscope close-up (a) of the Thaida peculiaris spider's silk-spinning organ, or cribellum. The spigots, seen even closer in an image of the Filistata ...