When small red devil spiders colonized the Canary Islands millions of years ago, they began one of the strangest genetic journeys of any creature. Although the Dysdera tilosensis looks very similar to ...

There are some seriously beautiful spiders in the world, but the species we currently have a crush on is Eresus rubrocephalus, a kind of ladybird spider. It’s not just any ladybird spider, however, ...

Tangle-web spiders can catch prey up to 50 times their size thanks to their pulley system-like hunting strategy. Photo by Emanuele Olivetti It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie. A hapless ...

To a lot of people, Lauren Taylor’s home in Reno, Nevada, might seem like something out of a nightmare. She has around 2,000 spiders living in her house, a number that grows by the day as gravid, or ...