They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

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

Wild Wonders "Dogs vs Giant Spider Invasion Prank! Maymo, Penny & Potpie Battle Spiders for Halloween" Posted: January 27, 2025 | Last updated: January 27, 2025 "Meet Maymo, the hilarious lemon ...

Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species because there’s such a range in the size and anatomy of individual spiders. Now an international team of scientists ...

So let’s see what we can see! “Rarely seen in battlefield records of the 41st Millennium, the Warp Spiders’ Phoenix Lord was considered apocryphal by Imperial scholars. At one point, she had been ...

It prefers to hunt instead of building webs. Prehistoric spiders tended to be larger on average than their modern counterparts, with most fossils discovered sporting leg spans of at least a few inches ...

Cilantica agasthyaensisis one of the new species included in a new genus of tarantulas from the Western Ghats. | Zeeshan Mirza via Mongabay A researcher described four new species of tarantulas ...

a spider enthusiast and former head of spiders at the Australian Reptile Park. "This particular spider is a lot larger, its venom glands are a lot larger and its fangs are a lot longer," he said.

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its own right. Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study ...

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists. Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm ...