A decade ago, the fate of one of Europe’s largest native spiders actually depended on what happened inside a laboratory. At the time, the great raft spider (Dolomedes plantarius) was teetering on the ...

A zoo in the United Kingdom is celebrating a decade of reviving a species that nearly became extinct. In a Facebook post, the Chester Zoo marked the release of thousands of giant fen raft spiders, ...

The effects of spider bites are putting more people in hospital in England than 10 years ago, according to a freedom of information request by the Press Association. NHS figures show that there were ...

Spider bite hospital admissions in the UK have doubled in a decade, with the country's most dangerous spider beginning to breed across the UK ...