While Hollywood and urban legends paint dramatic tales about spider bites, medical professionals share a fascinating reality: ...

Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to ...

Some spiders hunt and kill snakes up to 30 times their size. A study revealed 319 cases of such incidents involving over 40 ...

A newly discovered species of fungus takes control of cave-dwelling spiders in Ireland and Northern Ireland, similar to the ...

Three new Mexican spider monkeys are settling into their new home at the Charles Paddock Zoo in Atascadero. The new monkeys ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Priyali Prakash writes about a newly discovered type of fungus that turns spiders ...

Call emergency medical services immediately if the person with the spider bite has the following symptoms: 6. Monitor the ...

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 ...

A new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, was discovered on spiders in Irish caves. It changes their behavior, similar to ...

Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...