In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

It can be pretty scary finding any sort of spider in your bath but imagine coming across one that has a leg span of 12 inches ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the ...

Spiders are often treated as simple ambush predators, reacting only to what touches a web or wanders too close. Research over ...

As puma populations increased, they began preying on an unexpected species. Wildlife conservation efforts in the Patagonia region of Argentina have been so successful that rebounding populations of ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in ...

The claim sounds precise enough to pass as true. Eight spiders a year, eaten while asleep. It’s the kind of fact people insist they picked up in school or heard repeated often enough to trust. The ...

Do any animals cook their food like humans? In the wild, the closest culinary parallel seems to be the buckspoor spiders of deserts in southern Africa, says Ellen Husain. They hide beneath thin webs ...

Step aside, Van Gogh. Some spiders are out here making self-portraits for survival. New research shows that several orb-weaving species construct giant web-mounted “doppelgängers” convincing enough to ...