A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...

A video of hundreds of spiders "falling from the sky" in Brazil turned out to be a mating event, experts explained.

"Meet Maymo, the hilarious lemon beagle taking YouTube by storm ... expert says I’ve studied over 200 kids—the highly successful ones have parents who did 9 things early on 8 Things I've ...

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 new suit is a very faithful recreation of Peter Parker’s suit in the Spider-Man 2 game and will release at the exact same time the game’s PC port goes live. “Take the first look at ...

These large, hairy spiders are quite docile and are popular pets among arachnid enthusiasts. They possess a unique defense mechanism called urticating hairs, which they can release into the air to ...

A new species of Funnel Web Spider named Atrax christenseni and nicknamed ‘Big Boy’ is pictured at the Australian Museum in Sydney (Picture: Reuters) A new type of spider, nicknamed the ‘big ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a spider that they've unironically nicknamed "Big Boy." This arachnid is a larger, more venomous version of the Sydney funnel web, known to be one of the ...

These are the homes of the Porongurup trapdoor (Cataxia sp.), a shy brown spider that grows to about 4cm long, with a dark body and light brown legs. The Porongurup trapdoors are charming architects ...

However, the sensilla are absent in basally branching spider groups such as the basal trapdoor spiders found in Asia. The pattern we found suggests that wall-pore sensilla evolved independently ...

A fascinating example of this is the newly discovered giant trapdoor spider, Euoplos dignitas, found in Queensland, Australia. A team of researchers from Queensland Museum’s Project DIG recently ...