Nature reveals a stark reality: some mothers become their offspring's final meal. From black lace weaver spiders offering unfertilized eggs before being consumed, to desert spiders liquefying their ...
Raising offspring is expensive. It costs you time, it costs you money, and for some species: it costs you your life. This is the grisly fate of the African social spider, Stegodyphus dumicola, a ...
The newfound species belongs to the family of 'ladybird velvet spiders' but the bodily features display starkly unusual ...