Cold temperatures and harsh weather conditions are bad news for most animals, including spiders. But these creatures aren’t ...

After being rediscovered in Dorset, England in 1980, conservationists came together to save the striking spider through the Back from the Brink project. “The ladybird spider dep ...

When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the ...

Scientists in Kerala have discovered a rare fishing spider that hunts fish in forest streams. The unique species reveals ...

Learn more about a parasitic spider mite discovered in Brazil, the second of the genus ever described.

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

The arachnophobes have come to a decision: jumping spiders can stay. The other spiders must leave, but jumping spiders are ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of spider living in the state's coastal sand dunes. "These are absolutely beautiful spiders living among the California ...