Vice President, Social Media & Trending Content, CBS News and Stations Christina Capatides is the vice president of Social Media and Trending Content for CBS News and Stations. She is also a senior ...

An Australian woman had the scare of a lifetime when she awoke to find around 20 terrifying spiders hanging out at the bottom of her swimming pool. Lauren Merritt is just one of many Australians ...

Viewed well over 17 million times since its posting on Facebook, an Australian video has gone viral showcasing a huntsman spider with the strength of a scale-model Arnold Schwarzenegger dragging a ...

Nothing to see here, folks. Just a terrifying, nightmare-inducing Australian huntsman spider carrying a mouse up the side of a refrigerator, as they are wont to do in Australia. The scene was captured ...

QUEENSLAND, Australia (WTEN) – An Australian man posted a Facebook video of a massive spider carrying a mouse up a fridge. The video taken by Jason Womal has been watched more than 10 million times.

And most likely it is lurking in your garden. Queensland Museum's spider expert Dr Robert Raven said mouse spiders - missulena - were often confused with funnel webs. "Mouse spiders are a group of ...

You have to love the internet; it's a place where everything from beautiful grade school teachers to little boys named Terio can become viral sensations. One has to imagine most of that has to do with ...

QUEENSLAND, Australia -- This is sure to get your spidey-sense tingling. In what is just the latest in a long line of extraordinary Australian animal videos, a Queensland man spied a Huntsman spider ...

Wildlife officers have staked out a Newcastle family's home to discover why a large group of potentially fatal spiders have congregated there. Mary Rainer from the Australian Reptile Park said the ...

Two lineages of dangerous arachnids found in Australia -- long classified as distantly related in the official taxonomy -- are, in fact, relatively close evolutionary cousins. The lineages include the ...

Anyone who grew up in the '60s and '70s can remember that kids chose Marvel Comics to get away from the clean-scrubbed world of Disney. Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk and the X-Men all questioned the ...