Texas spiders' monstrous webs baffle scientists
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LAKE TAWAKONI STATE PARK, Texas  - Texans like to say everything in their state is bigger. They can now add spider webs to that list.
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It looks like a clump of soiled sheep's wool, a cottony green or white mass that's turning up on rocks and river bottoms, snarling waterways. Already a scourge in New Zealand and parts of the American South and West, the aquatic algae called "rock snot" is creeping into New England, where it is turning up in pristine rivers and alarming fishermen and wildlife biologists.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Scientists are scratching their heads over strange patterns cropping up on moss-covered logs in parks in the region.
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It has all the makings of a potential rangeland disaster: thousands of acres of grass and the herds of cattle, antelope and other animals that need to eat it versus an emerging army of spiky caterpillars with voracious appetites. But ranchers hope quick action will take care of the caterpillars &#151; also known as range worms &#151; before they can destroy pastures in northeastern New Mexico.
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Scientists have long admired the gecko lizard for its gravity-defying feet. Now U.S. researchers have made a waterproof bandage inspired by the sticky surface of a gecko's paws.
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Sea spiders, tiny "shrimp," and giant barnacles are among the potential new species discovered where a vast ice shelf used to be.
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The mystery of how a type of lizard "walks" on water may have been solved, a group of US scientists believe.
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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Using a creature as hideous as any big-screen sci-fi monster, scientists have produced a one-minute horror movie starring a menacing, spidery virus swooping in on a hapless blob of bacteria.
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What started as a few seconds of terror for a driver in Utah has become a set of photos so unbelievable they're making their rounds on the Web's myth-busting circuit.
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HUNTERS may soon be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet. It&#39;s a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms.
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Spiders scale vertical glass surfaces using a fibrous "glue" secreted from their feet, scientists show.
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One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show.
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Technology that enables people to stalk online and kill real prey has alarmed hunters and lawmakers intent on blocking the practice.
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How Much is the Link Structure Around Your Site Worth?  Google, Yahoo, MSN, &#038; Teoma have compiled a huge link graph of all the sites on the Web that are accessible by their spiders. I can barely fathom the depth of such a link map. I tried to build something that ...
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Deadly redback spiders lurking in letterboxes or kangaroos bounding along air strips are occupational hazards for "flying postman" Dave Funnell on his 620-mile outback mail run.
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Remote-control sharks, pain guns, radioactive scorpion venom ... Bond-like technology is unnervingly real in some labs. By Greta Lorge from Wired magazine.