What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

The University of Wisconsin Arboretum hosted the last Virtual Winter Enrichment Lecture Feb. 22, titled “Spiders: Tiny Tool-Users in Wisconsin and Beyond,” hosted by UW–Green Bay professor of biology ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of spider living in the state’s coastal sand dunes. The new species, named Aptostichus ramirezae, is a kind of trapdoor ...

The spider plant is one of the most popular of all houseplants. For this reason, it may have come to feel a little common, ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger. When ...

They say good things come in threes—but is that true even for the most venomous spider in the world? Scientists in Germany and Australia have reclassified one of the world’s most infamous arachnids.

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of spider living in the state's coastal sand dunes. "These are absolutely beautiful spiders living among the California ...