The new temporary attraction with live tarantulas and lots of facts hopes to make you more curious than apprehensive.

While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.

With eight very long legs, the ability to dart like lightning, and the name "hunts man", it's no wonder this iconic Australian arachnid is as feared ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of fungus that turns cave spiders into zombies. Unlike the events in the «The Last of ...

Prehistoric spiders tended to be larger on average than their modern counterparts, with most fossils discovered sporting leg spans of at least a few inches. However, the largest species today eclipse ...

According to the team, the relationship between the blow fly larvae and termites appears to be some form of social parasitism ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus centres on the North Shore of Sydney and the Central Coast, and the ...

Researchers collected samples of the infected spiders and conducted DNA analysis, confirming that they had discovered a ...

A new fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into "zombies" was discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle ...