Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Mar 8
#SpiderSilk-making organs evolved due to a 400-million-year-old #genetic oops
#Spiders and silk go hand in hand, but spinnerets may exist thanks to an ancient error
A close look at the genetics and development of #spinnerets — spiders’ silk-making organs — reveals that an early arachnid doubled all of its DNA hundreds of millions of years ago. The findings suggest key, doubled genes were responsible for the #evolution of spinnerets.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spider-silk-making-organ-evolve-genetic
https://archive.ph/LVsPW
Spider silk-making organs evolved due to a 400-million-year-old genetic oops

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the evolution of spinnerets.

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Daniele LiprandiJan 29

My last big work on spider silk is coming out! We discovered that spider silk does not behave like many people think, and that sometimes with just three bottles you can get more than four types of drinks!

Enjoy the read

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/sm/d5sm01141h

#science #spider #spidersilk #biology #nature #mechanics #engineering #physics

Mehmet Turgay AKALINNov 30

Stronger than steel, softer than skin.
A new era of medicine is being woven, literally! We explore how a Latvian biotech company is biomimetically synthesizing spider silk, nature's most perfect fiber, to create clot-resistant heart valves and scaffolds for lab-grown organs. This is the future of implantable tech.

Read about "The Iron Thread": https://medium.com/@makalin/%EF%B8%8Fthe-iron-thread-how-biotech-is-weaving-spider-silk-into-the-future-of-human-organs-ed25846413b9

#SpiderSilk #Biotech #MedTech #RegenerativeMedicine #Nanotechnology

Show threadneville parkOct 12

#Arachtober 12: a small yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) perches on a fence post and releases a stream of silk strands that are separated and carried aloft by the breeze and (as we've learned in recent years) atmospheric static electricity. If the silk catches on something, the spider can use it to bridge a long gap. Smaller spiders can be borne aloft entirely and traverse long distances, a behaviour called ballooning.

#ArthroBeauty #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae

Ghost AcolyteAug 9, 2025

“Threaded Silence”

Genre(s): Nature Photography

#naturephotography
#butterfly #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #butterflyphotography #closeupshot #summerlight #silverspottedskipper #telephotolens #spidersilk

🤘 The Metal Dog 🤘Aug 4, 2025

#TheMetalDogArticleList
#BraveWords–WhereMusicLives
Watch NIGHTWISH Vocalist FLOOR JANSEN’s Entire Wacken Open Air 2025 Solo Show; Pro-Shot Video

https://bravewords.com/news/watch-nightwish-vocalist-floor-jansens-entire-wacken-open-air-2025-solo-show-pro-shot-video/

#FloorJansen #Nightwish #WackenOpenAir #Wacken2025 #AfterForever #ReVamp #Northward #WolfAndDog #SpiderSilk #Amaranth

Ancient OriginsJul 24, 2025
Over five years, using silk from one million spiders, artists created the world’s only golden spider silk cape—handmade, priceless, and impossible to recreate with modern machines.
#SpiderSilk #WeirdHistory #RareTextiles #MadeByNature #RealOrFake #Madagascar#Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read More:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/world-s-rarest-textile-made-silk-one-million-spiders-009010
danwestOct 26, 2024

Good Morning

#BloomScrolling
#flowers
#photography
#SpiderSilk

Show threadneville parkSep 6, 2024

Update: managed to get a look at the spider that made the wonky web. It's hard to see from these photos (didn't have my macro stuff on me), but it has only one leg on the right side!

That could account for its messy web, I think.

#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk • #Araneae #Araneidae

neville parkSep 5, 2024

you ever see a spiderweb that makes you go "girl are you ok???"

(second photo is what the web's supposed to look like. A _Zygiella_ missing-sector orbweaver.)

obligatory "spiders on drugs" video, before you all send it to me: https://youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc
and the Travis McEnery video about how orb webs are made, including the backstory of the real "spiders on drugs" experiments: https://youtu.be/8U5KKdhXsgA

#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #spiderwebs #SpiderSilk • #Araneae #Araneidae

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