Researchers trekking the remote Himalayas to study ants stumbled onto something unexpected lurking under a leaf, and it ...

Take the dewdrop spiders, a group of tiny tropical species that specialise in pilfering prey caught by larger orb-web spiders ...

This nocturnal rainforest spider has evolved an unusually specialized hunting strategy, using a silk-powered snare to target ...

We gardeners understand the concept of separating. We routinely separate insects in our garden into “good” and “bad” columns.

What is a vampire spider? Where do they live and do they drink human blood? Nick Baker takes a look at this fascinating ...

The Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare that is set off by ants of one species only. The power is in the ...

Two species of black widow spiders, the northern and southern, are found in Ohio, primarily in the southern third of the ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

Vision shapes how many animals find food, avoid danger and navigate their world. In animals with two eyes, eye placement is ...

Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae -- the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the ...

The publicity posters for the 1955 cult monster movie Tarantula! displayed a giant spider rampaging across the Arizona desert ...