KOLOA, Hawaii – No one had ever photographed a baby Kauai wolf spider being carried on its mother's interlocking back hairs until two Hawaii scientists caught the shot. The endangered Kauai wolf ...

Most people go to Hawaii for the golden beaches, the turquoise seas, or the stunning weather. Rosemary Gillespie went for the spiders. Situated around 2,400 miles from the nearest continent, the ...

The Kauai Cave Wolf spider is one of the top 6 most endangered spiders in the world. Its food, the amphipod, is endangered too. Now, local residents are worried that one of the few places where ...

“Many years ago, a spider expert from the Mainland did some dissections of Hawaii’s spiders at the Bishop Museum, and confirmed that we have only the brown violin spider in Hawaii. ...

The spiders native to Hawaii are endemic — all 126 species are found nowhere else in the world. The fact that spiders made it to Hawaii without the help of humans is remarkable.

These spiders, which live in forests 2,000 feet above sea level on the islands of Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, and Hawaii, have undergone rapid and repeated evolution for thousands of years.

They also found that since arriving in Hawaii, the original group of spiders has diversified, spreading out across five of the islands. T hat one species formed 14 more over the years, ...