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.

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 ...

You’re walking back to the house at dusk.Thinking about dinner. Not thinking about spiders. Then you hit a web.Across the ...

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 ...

AZ Animals is a growing team of animals experts, researchers, farmers, conservationists, writers, editors, and -- of course -- pet owners who have come together to help you better understand the ...