That’s unlikely, but thanks to the Darwin’s bark spider, it’s not impossible. The BBC YouTube video below highlights the ...

Female Asian hermit spiders gobble up their partners after mating, so males detach their penises and sometimes offer up an amputated leg to escape.

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders responded differently ...

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He aims to modify a strain of yeast to produce spider silk. Charlotte’s Web didn’t go into great detail about the different types of silk that a spider can produce, but the video and screencap ...

Not only does spider silk combine the useful properties of high tensile strength and extensibility, it can be beautiful in its own right. 'Silk is an amazing material,' says Jan Beccaloni, our ...

If you suspect that you were bitten by an arachnid, and can see the spider, use the gallery below to confirm its identity. This will clean the wound and help prevent infection. 2. Apply a cool ...

Those round shells and long legs give Japanese spider crabs an arachnid-like look, hence their common name. These animals also have spines behind and in front of their short eye stalks.

Associate Professor of Entomology at Lincoln University Cor Vink said he had been told of two sightings of the Huntsman spider - nine months apart - in the Pandora suburb of Napier. Huntsman ...