Spiders are prolific. There are 45,000 species of spiders that we currently know of, and scientists estimate that there are ...

Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

If you despise spiders, then you know the struggle seeing these creepy crawlers make their way into homes and gardens during the autumn season. While most types of spiders commonly seen at home are ...

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion constellation reveals about the life cycles of stars. Time now for our science ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

It is, in fact, impossible to rid an area of spiders for any length of time because new spiders soon recolonise a house if ...

That quiet observation helped launch new research from Queen’s University showing that winter-active spiders make an unusually powerful antifreeze protein that lets them survive subzero temperatures ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

If we can get beyond our fears, spiders, beetles, caterpillars and other creepy-crawlies can make for fine family companions.