Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant ...

Cute dog Maymo battles a giant spider for Halloween. Maymo is excited to meet the giant inflatable spider in the living room, ...

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

There are over 60 known tarantula species in Ecuador, with many more suspected. Click here to learn all about tarantulas in ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

There are over 700 islands in the Caribbean Sea, formed by volcanic activity and tectonic shifts. Many diverse ecological regions are found throughout the region and across individual islands, ...

Lauren Taylor, 35, was terrified of spiders. Growing up, she thought they wanted to crawl all over her and bite her. This changed a few years ago, when she saw a Phidippus regius (or “regal”) jumping ...

Pioneers of botanical research since 1759, scientists at Kew Gardens, based in London, have named 190 new plants and fungi together with partners in 2025. Over the last 12 months, Kew taxonomists ...

This study was undertaken to develop an experimental protocol using insects as biological models to assay venom toxicity of the following spiders Loxosceles gaucho, Phoneutria nigriventer, Nephilengys ...

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — The Prairie Village City Council will vote Monday on whether to allow resident Toni King-Skelton to keep her pet spider monkey, Oakley. This comes as the city considers a new ...

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — The Prairie Village City Council will vote Monday on whether to allow resident Toni King-Skelton to keep her pet spider monkey, Oakley. This comes as the city considers a new ...