Hidden under the leaf litter, one tiny creature is easy to miss. It’s just a few millimeters long, and the animal is waiting ...

Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy ...

Spiders can appear threatening, scary, or even cute, but the three most common spiders in Massachusetts are harmless to ...

As venomous animals, spiders use their chemical arsenal for prey capture or defense. Small neurotoxins target the central ...

The venom of a single spider species can contain over 3,000 molecules, primarily small neurotoxins used to overpower insects.

A clinical trial will test whether a lab-made version of a molecule found in spider venom can reverse tissue damage after a ...

Spiders are commonly found at the center of many Halloween decorations but they're actually more important than most people ...

A Phoenix man will serve prison time after he smuggled exotic animals into the U.S. with the intent of selling them.

Scientists at the University of Queensland have been studying the venom of the K'gari funnel web spider, an arachnid native to Australia.

Wolf spiders, with their large, stocky bodies and fast movements, are completely harmless but are misunderstood because they ...

A Phoenix man and his mother were sentenced to prison for trying to import protected wildlife from Mexico. Raymond Anthony ...