The spider doppelgängers are made of prey carcasses, plant debris, and other organic materials. They have a central structure ...
A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The finding could have implications for a NASA spacecraft en route to the ...
A decade after being listed among the UK’s rarest invertebrates, one of Europe’s largest native spiders is rapidly reclaiming wetland territory. The great raft spider (Dolomedes plantarius), once ...
It may sound like something out of a nightmare, but scientists say they weren’t dreaming when they discovered a massive spiderweb that’s home to more than 110,000 arachnids inside a cave in ...
Australia, famously, is home to some of the most formidable wildlife on Earth, and its arachnid population is particularly legendary. From the huntsman to the orb-weaver, there are some extraordinary ...
Up there — or should we say down there — in the pantheon of bad movies we love to watch is The Giant Spider Invasion, a 1975 horror/sci-fi indie directed, produced, and scored by maverick filmmaker ...
Nature-made Halloween decorations looming around your porch? Well, you’re not the only one. Joro spiders are a massive invasive species invading the South, but how? Well, they’ve been around since ...
Of course, Norman Osborn is not Peter Parker, so just about everyone notices that his stunt as the temporary Spider-Man has the Friendly Neighborhood Wall-Crawler acting way darker than usual. In the ...
They’re big. They’re yellow, in part. And they’re invasive. But Joro spiders, now spinning their webs in carports and forests in South Carolina, are not as dangerous or as destructive as many of the ...