The world's largest spider web has been found in an underwater cave on the Greece-Albania border, according to a recent ...

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile ...

Have you ever wondered what some of the largest spiders in South Carolina might look like? If you haven’t before, you might be curious now. A nursery rhyme that kept waking a woman up at night in ...

Scientists found a “large” spider with “feather duster-like” legs in a forest and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from David Ortiz At night in a national park of Cuba, a “large” creature ...

The brown tarantula is about the size of an apple or orange. University of Missouri-St. Louis scientist Becky Hansis-O’Neill ...

A Washington College professor is calling on residents across Baltimore and Maryland’s Eastern Shore to help track the spread of the Jorō spider ...

A University of Michigan-led team of biologists headed into the Amazon rainforest to observe predatory-prey relationships between different types of critters and got more than they bargained for. They ...

From the archive: This story first appeared in The Desert Sun in 2016. It was huge, plodding and menacing to my neighbors. I write of a large tarantula that walked in front of my sliding door last ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A tarantula at a Salt Lake City apartment complex spooked residents after crawling through a window on Monday. It wasn't a coincidence that thisarachnid made an appearance just ...

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