The post Climbing, Burrowing, or Camouflaging: How Nearly 50 Tarantula Species Carve Out Survival in Venezuela appeared first on A-Z Animals. Arboreal taranulas in the Avicularia, Amazonias, ...

Spiders are arachnids, a class of arthropods closely related to scorpions, mites, and ticks. With over 45,000 species, ...

When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the heaviest body. A few species are genuine monsters on both counts. Others are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most ...

All eight Spider-Man movies are returning to select movie theaters starting next month, part of a promotion that Sony Pictures is calling "Spider-Mondays" in which fans will be able to "experience all ...

I’m seeing a ton of smart bird feeders again this year at CES — and I’m inexplicably drawn to them. Perhaps because the idea of birds nibbling on seeds and flying away represents a natural purity and ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the bird’s survival. A southern cassowary stands on a beach at Etty Bay in ...

Spiders are prolific. There are 45,000 species of spiders that we currently know of, and scientists estimate that there are twice that amount we haven’t discovered yet. They range massively in size ...

A strain of bird flu never seen in humans has infected a Washington state resident and left the person hospitalized, state health authorities said. Washington State Department of Health authorities ...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is merely the first half of a two-part story which means, unfortunately, we have a long wait ahead until Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse continues that ...