Spiderwebs evoke a unique mix of fear and awe. But not all spiderwebs follow the iconic radial design we usually picture.

Most spiders have eight eyes, but they don’t always have great vision. Some rely more on their other senses, like feeling vibrations, to catch their food. Spider silk is super lightweight but also ...

The surface of Mars is covered in spider-like patterns, but how they formed has long been a mystery. Researchers at NASA may ...

Sightings in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania have arachnophobes buzzing—but experts say these colorful critters likely hitched ...

There are six species of false widow spiders that live in the UK, each one with their own colour and size. The most common ...

Female spiders are known to stay in one place for all of their lives, but males are always on the move. During spider mating season, the males will go searching for females and often find them inside ...

In fact, wolf spiders live on every continent but Antarctica. There are more than 24,000 different species of wolf spiders. You can tell them from other types of spiders because they have three ...

Yes. In addition to insects, some larger species may eat animals including frogs, lizards, snakes, fish, birds and bats. Earlier this year, USA Today reported that orb weaver spiders also have ...

In the UK, there are more than 650 different species of spider and while all of them can bite, only 12 can cause harm to humans. Money, cellar and lace web spiders will likely be seen more ...

I am beginning to wonder if I should apologise for reintroducing spiders to this column, a subject with which some of you might be getting fed up, especially if you are phobic of them. I implore the ...

A curator for the American Museum of Natural History has been detained at Istanbul Airport on suspicion of smuggling spiders and scorpions ... that the DNA from the species in Mr Prendini's ...