The behavior, which had never been observed before, stunned scientists as, typically, the larger house spider would prey on ...

The world's largest spider web has been found in an underwater cave on the Greece-Albania border, according to a recent ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh is on an official tour across South and Central America, currently visiting Peru, Panama, Guatemala, ...

Have you ever wondered what some of the largest spiders in South Carolina might look like? If you haven’t before, you might be curious now. A nursery rhyme that kept waking a woman up at night in ...

“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” For a moment I didn’t pay much attention to the large insect buzzing around me. It was one of those gentle spring days and ...

Scientists found a “large” spider with “feather duster-like” legs in a forest and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from David Ortiz At night in a national park of Cuba, a “large” creature ...

Wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and tarantulas (Theraphosidae) are both maligned and feared throughout the world. They are venomous, ...

From the archive: This story first appeared in The Desert Sun in 2016. It was huge, plodding and menacing to my neighbors. I write of a large tarantula that walked in front of my sliding door last ...

Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh met a tarantula during a royal visit, but totally different reaction to seeing a sizable ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A tarantula at a Salt Lake City apartment complex spooked residents after crawling through a window on Monday. It wasn't a coincidence that thisarachnid made an appearance just ...

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