Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in ...

You may think you know what a spider plant looks like – but there’s a lot more variety than you think! We present some ...

Learn to identify and treat dangerous spider bites with expert advice on symptoms, treatments and prevention methods for the ...

Two venomous spiders, black widows and brown recluse spiders, can cause severe symptoms, experts say. Here are spider bite ...

Instead of traditional naming based on traits or location, a Chinese arachnologist turned to Jay Chou’s discography, naming ...

Eric Jones carved this snow sculpture of Spider-Man outside 10-year-old Landon Brown’s house in Fillmore, N.Y. The snow Spider-Man is 8 feet tall and 8 feet wide and situated on a pedestal, which is ...

The brown widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus) is a lesser-known relative of the infamous black widow. The first brown widow spider was discovered in Los Angeles in early 2000. A member of the ...

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider is the most venomous in the world. This scientists already knew since it has 13 people have been ...