Scientists have studied what they believe is the world's biggest spider's web and found two species of spider are living side ...

Right now, as you read this, more than 110,000 arachnids are crawling around the world’s largest spiderweb. The ...

Arachnophobia, or the fear of spiders, is one of the most common specific phobias. Arachnophobia affects between 2.7 and 6.1 percent of the global population. That doesn't seem like a lot, but with ...

The scary-looking, ominously-named wolf spider is actually a beneficial insect. Wolf spiders belong to the class Arachnida and are members of the family Lycosidae (derived from the Greek word lycos, ...

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named ...