A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting ...

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

And now, new research has uncovered a ladybird spider in the wilds of a cork oak forest in southern Morocco — and it’s unlike ...

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

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

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

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

The diving bell spider (Argyroneta aquatica) is the only spider species known to live almost entirely underwater. This is ...

A spotted orb weaver is shown in its web Upcountry. It is one of approximately 205 species of spiders in Hawaii, of which an estimated 77 species have been introduced by people accidentally or ...

The newfound species belongs to the family of 'ladybird velvet spiders' but the bodily features display starkly unusual ...

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