spiders

Experiments on the International Space Station suggest spiders can weave normal-looking webs in space—they just need…

The second episode of The Mandalorian’s second season took its central bounty hunter and his infant space gremlin…

December always goes by too fast in my opinion. One moment, it’s the first and I have all the time in the world to…

Scientists have discovered a spider living in South Africa that’s truly a sight to behold. The arachnids feature a…

Daddy long-legs—spider-like arachnids technically known as “harvestmen”—are already plenty unnerving, with their…

Pennywise, the antagonist of all iterations of Stephen King’s It and its adaptations, is generally a very menacing…

Hurricanes could make spider colonies more aggressive over time, according to a new paper. Let’s add “avoiding…

That’s a photo of a huntsman spider eating a pygmy possum. Yikes!

You can hang around as many laboratories as you want, but there are zero chances you’ll ever get bitten by a spider…

Spiders are creepy even at the best of times, but new photos taken from the Amazon rainforest put these predatory…

A new spider fossil discovery included a surprising find: remnants of reflective eye tissue.

Tarantulas generally stick to a pretty predictable body plan—eight legs, long fangs, usually fuzzy. But a newly-descr…

You know what’s more terrifying than spiders creeping into your home in the middle of the night? Spiders in the freak…

Jumping spider mothers provide milk to their spiderlings far into development, according to a new study that might…

Parasites that control the behavior of their hosts for their own benefit are a well-documented natural phenomenon,…

While this should seemingly go without saying, it turns out that “kill it with fire” is not a great idea when it…

Can you think of anything creepier in the middle of the night than the distant, melancholy sounds of children…

Using photos snapped by citizen scientists, Canadian researchers have documented the northerly spread of black…

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is going to be filled with Spider-People. Not just people, but pigs, robots, you…

Scientists have discovered a new species of sheet-weaving spider, and it only dwells in one cave in southern…