According to the Wildlife Trusts, the Giant House Spider, which is the larger cousin of the House spider, is one of the fastest invertebrates on the planet and is capable of running up to half-a ...

Often breeding anxiety in homeowners due to its size and sometimes mistaken identity is the giant house spider, Eratigena atrica. Moving as fast as an Olympic gold medalist, these large arachnids ...

"Ten years ago, we helped release THOUSANDS of GIANT spiders back into the U.K.," the zoo captioned its celebratory post. "The fen raft spiders were bred right here at the zoo, and we're super ...

The English zoo celebrated 10 years since they released thousands of giant fen raft spiders into the United Kingdom after the species almost became extinct, the Chester Zoo wrote on Facebook.