When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

And now, new research has uncovered a ladybird spider in the wilds of a cork oak forest in southern Morocco — and it’s unlike ...

The newfound species belongs to the family of 'ladybird velvet spiders' but the bodily features display starkly unusual ...

Some spiders build delicate little nets, others colossal web megacities, and now some in Peru and the Philippines have been found sculpting giant doppelgängers out of silk, prey carcasses, and debris.

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday, ...

A new spider species from among the harsh dry lands of southern Morocco has amazed the scientific world with its face, a ...

A spotted orb weaver is shown in its web Upcountry. It is one of approximately 205 species of spiders in Hawaii, of which an estimated 77 species have been introduced by people accidentally or ...

Crimson red ladybug spider with surprising scientific characteristics has been discovered in Morocco and named Eresus rubrocephalus.