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

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Venezuela is on the northern coast of South America, bordered by the Caribbean Sea. Its diverse geography includes the Andes ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

The population of the large, brightly colored invasive species called the Joro spider has been growing in parts of the southern and eastern U.S. for years, and some researchers think it's only a ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

The arachnophobes have come to a decision: jumping spiders can stay. The other spiders must leave, but jumping spiders are ...

Learn more about a parasitic spider mite discovered in Brazil, the second of the genus ever described.