In a remarkable discovery, scientists have found that certain deep-sea spiders are not predators or scavengers as once ...

The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor and sheds light on the methane ...

Other types of sea spiders that don’t live near seeps largely eat other invertebrates. But the researchers found the new sea ...

According to the National Academy of Science the 3 new species use methane, with the help of bacteria, to get energy.

All the spiders in the world combined annually eat about 440 to 880 million tons of insects and other pests — equal to the weight of more than 85 million elephants, according to a new study ...

Spider biologists have also generally found that spiders consume approximately 10 percent of their body weigh in food per day. That’s equivalent to a 200-pound man eating 20 pounds of meat each day.

The world’s spiders consume somewhere between 400 million and 800 million tons of prey a year. That means that spiders eat at least as much meat as all 7 billion humans on the planet.

Come to Australia, where our spiders eat our snakes! Don't Mess with a Redback Spider!! An office receptionist got the shock of her life earlier this week when she found a 70cm long snake ...

One of three methane-eating, deep-sea spider species recently discovered off the Southern California coast. One of three ...

A recent study uncovers three sea spider species that depend on methane-eating microbes for food, offering insight into ...

It’s a spider-eat-bug world. Chumchal, an ecologist, came to spiders through his interest in food chains — the networks that connect predators, including humans, and prey within an ecosystem.