Number 16 was a Gauis villosus spider that was among the first group of dispersing spiderlings included in the study. She was ...

From staying cool to protecting eggs, these camel spiders use burrows as safe shelters in some of the world’s driest regions.

Deep in the unyielding darkness of a Brazilian cave, a pale, blind, spiny beast carefully feels its way across rust-colored rocks. Meet Paleotoca diminas, a spider new to science. The species, ...

Scientists found a “large” creature with fangs behind a trapdoor in Tamil Nadu and discovered a new species, a study said and photos show. Photos from A. Khandekar via Khandekar, Thackeray, Pawar, ...

Oregon is home to some 500 species of spiders and across the Southwest and West, a stampede of sorts is coming. Tens of thousands of tarantulas will begin crawling out of their burrows in search of ...

Andreas Kay / Flickr / Dylan Thomas / Facebook Look out Peter Parker, there may be a new Spider-Man coming your way. An Australian tourist named Dylan Thomas brought back a bite-sized souvenir from ...