While both are arachnids and spine chilling to behold, there are many differences between a male vs female black widow spider ...

Scientists named the half-male, half-female spider after an One Piece anime character who can change sex at will.

If you're scared of spiders, Halloween certainly doesn't help. People decorate their homes with monstrous-looking fake ...

Pilia malenadu is a small but striking creature. As a member of the jumping-spider family, it is active in daylight hours, darting across leaves with that pause-and-hop rhythm.

Mangaluru: After more than a century, researchers rediscovered the elusive jumping spider genus Pilia in the wild, ...

Discover spider insights from Dr. Echeverri, a science communicator, author, wildlife photographer, and spider expert.

A colossal spider web, potentially the world's largest, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. This ...

Male and female black widow spiders exhibit striking sexual dimorphism. Females are significantly larger, darker, and possess ...

Spiders aren't just spooky Halloween mascots. Their keen senses, complex behaviors, and diverse lifestyles make them ...

Every year, spiders kill about 20 people worldwide. That’s fewer than scorpions, lightning strikes, or hippos—and a tiny ...

ARACHNOPHOBES, look away now – what might be the world’s biggest spider web has been found. Hidden deep inside a pitch-black ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang goes on a nighttime hike in search of spiders, with Lisa Gonzalez of the Natural History Museum of Los ...