Black widow spiders, scientific name Latrodectus mactans, are among the most venomous of all arachnids. They are found in North America, and their bite can be fatal in some cases. If you found a ...

For many people, spiders are a minor nuisance, but for others, they’re a full-blown nightmare. While spiders can be found in ...

I'm brushing my teeth this morning in the bathroom, when I see a small spider on the wall. 'Cool', I think, 'I'll snap a picture and identify it.' Bend down to rinse, spit, bend up, and it's gone.

When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the ...

Spending the summer outdoors means running into a variety of crawling and slithering creatures, whether it's at the lake, on the forest floor or wrapped around your front porch light. While running ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Discover how the diving bell spider constructs a silk platform underwater and uses it to trap air and make a diving bell.

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...