Paul Lazarro has one of the weirdest gigs I’ve ever heard of: he milks black widow spiders for their silk. Yeap! The venomous, red dotted, eight-legged, creature-killing black widow is knocked out and then handled for its super strong silk. All in the name of dangerous research. More »
The male orb-web spider has a dangerous natural imperative. He — the little one on the left — has to have sex with the behemoth on the right. And she wants to eat him. What’s a guy to do? Use his detachable penis to keep her satisfied while he scurries off, of course. More »
Those of you with arachnophobia may want to turn away from your monitors. This enormous inflatable spider puppet was built by UK artist Tim Davies for street and carnival performances. Details are still scarce on its inner workings or controls but Davies mentions that the legs are “air-powered.” Video! More »
I’ll admit that it looks a bit like your grandparents’ bath towels, but this is actually the largest piece of clothing ever made purely from spider silk. More »
The next time you find yourself buried in rubble, your saviour might not be a keen-nosed rescue dog but rather this terror-inducing robo-arachnid. Huzzah? More »
Unfortunately, he/she is dead. Very, very dead. But! Clever scientists have been able to bring it to life (sorta) via x-ray scans, which virtually dug the crawler out of its prehistoric amber crypt. The video is eerily silent. [via Hairpin]
