Commenters have dubbed a spider in a viral Facebook post an “Oreo spider” for the flat, brownish disc on the end of its abdomen. Despite the innocuous nickname, the user who shared the post warns ...

A Euoplos dignitas spider pictured in 2021. A trap door with silken hinges might sound like something out of a fairy tale, but it's actually something that comes out of some spiders — and there's a ...

While trapdoor spiders can come in all kinds of different sizes, like the massive and nightmarish Euoplos dignitas, or the much smaller brush-footed trapdoor spider, like those found in Australia. Now ...

A new "big, beautiful" kind of giant trapdoor spider has been discovered in Australia, and scientists say it's a rare find. The newly discovered species, Euoplos dignitas, was found in the Brigalow ...

Q: I was digging on my hillside and found a spider that was over 5 inches in diameter, including the legs. The legs were very stocky and the spider’s body was purple! I believe it was underground. Any ...

The spiders can live for up to 20 years in the wild, are hard to spot despite their size, and have been found near regional farming towns in Australia Scientists in the Australian state of Queensland ...

In news that will no doubt send a shiver up arachnophobes' spines, Georgia biologist Rebecca Godwin has conclusively identified the Pine Rockland trapdoor spider as a new species. The spider resembles ...

This new spider species was discovered in sand dunes on a California beach. An unnamed spider species lurks in the sand dunes of Monterey County’s Moss Landing State Beach and UC Davis scientists need ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has documented the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales, ...