You probably think of snakes as fearsome predators that sit near the top of the food chain. While that is often true, snakes ...

Jeez. It takes convincing but spiders, scary as they are, perform a critical function in nature. Here are 7 reasons we should ...

We often think of nature as peaceful and beautiful. But life in the wild is not easy. Animals do not think like humans. They ...

Spiders are arachnids, a class of arthropods closely related to scorpions, mites, and ticks. With over 45,000 species, ...

“Not only do these spiders occasionally catch small vertebrates – mice, rats, frogs, lizards, snakes – they also catch bulky ...

Lauren Taylor, 35, was terrified of spiders. Growing up, she thought they wanted to crawl all over her and bite her. This changed a few years ago, when she saw a Phidippus regius (or “regal”) jumping ...

Up to 20 million driver ants can swarm out of one nest and attack any living thing in the area. Read how they do it!

Jaelen Nicole Myers receives funding from The Ecological Society of Australia, Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment, and the American Elasmobranch Society. As an ecologist who studies stingrays, ...

Spiders of the Clubiona genus, which are among the most important natural enemies of pests found in orchards, are active during the winter. New research in The FEBS Journal reveals the characteristics ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for many, the celebrations conjure up images of two specific animals: spiders and ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...