Spider orb webs rely on radial threads to absorb prey kinetic energy

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Damping capacity is evolutionarily conserved in the radial silk of orb-weaving spiders

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Behavioural and biomaterial coevolution in spider orb webs

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Simple Model for the Mechanics of Spider Webs

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Viscoelastic solids explain spider web stickiness

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Can a spider web be too sticky? Tensile mechanics constrains the evolution of capture spiral stickiness in orb-weaving spiders

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Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era

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