Giant spiders the size of a human hand have had a record breeding year in the UK following conservation efforts. A decade ago, Chester Zoo released thousands of fen raft Spiders after the species was ...

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

When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the ...

If you suffer from arachnophobia, this is the time of year when you’re most likely to run into one of your worst nightmares: a tarantula. It’s mating season for most of the 29 species of tarantulas in ...