What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in ...

Spiders in this toxic sulfur cave have built a thriving spider metropolis and the largest spider web complex in the world!

Deep beneath the Balkans, a massive sulfur-fed cave hosts 111,000 spiders in one shared web, defying typical spider behavior.

Few creatures fill people with as much as dread and fear as spiders and snakes. In fact, many people develop an extreme, overwhelming fear of spiders (arachnophobia) or snakes (ophidiophobia), and ...

If you find yourself running into spiderwebs everywhere you go, you're not alone. Spiders seem to be everywhere in the fall. The webs multiply, draping across sidewalks, stretching across paths in the ...

Australia is known for its deadly creatures of unusual size. From the saltwater crocodile to the box jellyfish and even the eastern brown snake, these creatures are just a sampling of the critters ...

Almost every Australian is taught, from a very young age, to be cautious around the funnel-web spider. These large, black, aggressive arachnids can be found along the eastern coast of the continent, ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous city, was long thought to be a single species. But it’s actually three different species ...