Time Now for Some Gnarly Photos of Spiders Eating Other Animals
Spiders are creepy even at the best of times, but new photos taken from the Amazon rainforest put these predatory…
Rare Spider Fossil Preserves 100-Million-Year-Old Glowing Eyes
A new spider fossil discovery included a surprising find: remnants of reflective eye tissue.
New Tarantula Species Has Big, Weird, Floppy Horn
Tarantulas generally stick to a pretty predictable body plan—eight legs, long fangs, usually fuzzy. But a newly-describe…
Imagine Walking Into This Wall of Spiders and Never Sleep Again
You know what’s more terrifying than spiders creeping into your home in the middle of the night? Spiders in the freaking…
Spider Milk Is Real and Their Babies Love It, New Study Shows
Jumping spider mothers provide milk to their spiderlings far into development, according to a new study that might turn…
Infected ‘Zombie Spiders’ Forced to Build Incubation Chambers for Their Parasitic Overlords
Parasites that control the behavior of their hosts for their own benefit are a well-documented natural phenomenon, but…
Stop Using Blowtorches to Kill Spiders in Your House
While this should seemingly go without saying, it turns out that “kill it with fire” is not a great idea when it comes…
British Town Blames Spiders for Ghostly Sound of Children Singing at Night
Can you think of anything creepier in the middle of the night than the distant, melancholy sounds of children singing?…
Black Widow Spiders Are Spreading Farther North Than Ever Before
Using photos snapped by citizen scientists, Canadian researchers have documented the northerly spread of black widows…
Watch: Miles Morales Inspires Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is going to be filled with Spider-People. Not just people, but pigs, robots, you name…
New Translucent Spider Discovered Living in Muddy Indiana Cave
Scientists have discovered a new species of sheet-weaving spider, and it only dwells in one cave in southern Indiana. As…
Watch Tiny Crab Spiders Take Flight With 10-Foot Silk Parachutes
If you’re arachnophobic, I hate to tell you this, but spiders can fly.
No One Wants an Arachnophobia Remake, But James Wan Is Giving Us One Anyway
Arachnophobia is one of those movies that gets scarier the less you remember it. Because you want to forget. Because…
This Stupid Tick Managed to Get Itself Wrapped in Spider Silk—and Then Fossilized in Amber
Around 100 million years ago, a tick ran into some bad luck. It had the misfortune of wandering onto a spider’s web,…
Mad Scientists Taught a Predatory Spider to Jump for Them and Now We're All Probably Doomed
Scientists at the University of Manchester in the UK trained a spider named Kim to jump for them, then recorded her…
Male Brown Widow Spiders Prefer Cannibalistic Older Females for No Apparent Reason
Scientists in Israel have observed a strange behavior among brown widow spiders: When given the choice, the males of…
Don’t Bother Trying to Outrun This Creepy Spiderbot That Transforms Into a Rolling Wheel
If the only thing more terrifying to you than a spider is a spider chasing you, you’re not going to want to watch this…
These Hawaiian Stick Spiders Have a Profound Case of Evolutionary Déjà Vu
Environments make species. This was the fundamental biology lesson that was drilled into Charles Darwin when he visited…
Eighteen Species of Tweezer-Faced, Spider-Slaying Pelican Spiders Discovered in Madagascar
Quick: what has eight legs and a face like a pair of hairy salad tongs? If you’re a spider, you know exactly what I’m…
Virgin Velvet Spiders Allow Themselves to Be Eaten By Their Foster Kids
Spiders are typically thought of as solitary creatures that don’t partake in social pleasantries unless it has…