Cold temperatures and harsh weather conditions are bad news for most animals, including spiders. But these creatures aren’t ...

Discover how the diving bell spider constructs a silk platform underwater and uses it to trap air and make a diving bell.

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

Jumping spiders are native to the U.S. and make great pets, bug lovers say. Investigators did not say what species of jumping spider was involved in the animal cruelty case. Laurie Sheppard/USFWS A ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

Source: William Eberhard, used with permission. Spider webs can be beautiful, intricate, and deadly—but what can they tell us about the spiders who build them? There are over 3,100 species of ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for many, the celebrations conjure up images of two specific animals: spiders and ...