Parasites have been attaching themselves to spiders for millennia. Given the large number of spiders and the wide variety of ...

Spiders come in all sorts of colors and patterns. While we all know about black widows and their iconic red hourglass marks, ...

Even though its brain is smaller than a grain of rice, this spider plans ahead, adapts mid-hunt and outsmarts prey larger ...

They called it Damarchus inazuma, after a Japanese manga character in the "One Piece." ...

Researchers collected the unfortunate arachnids near grottos and caves in Rio de Janeiro state, a region similar to where ...

The discovery started at the Zoological Collections Laboratory in Pinheiral, Rio de Janeiro. While examining young spiders, ...

Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig ...

If someone told you there’s a spider in Hawaiʻi with a smiley face on its back, you might assume they’re exaggerating. Or ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

A new study has revealed why some spiders possess venom that is far more potent than others. By analyzing the venoms of more than 70 different spider species, the team explored whether factors such as ...

Kolhapur: A new species of trapdoor spider has been discovered in the grasslands of Kolhapur district by a joint team of ...