They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

The Indianapolis Zoo announced the six DeHaan finalists for the 2025 Indianapolis Prize, celebrating individuals who conserve ...

When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of geopolitical turmoil, cleft in two physically and politically by 168km (104 ...

Serving as The Peregrine Fund's national director of its Madagascar Program, René de Roland has helped discover several new species, including the Madagascar pochard duck, lemur species and a wolf ...

Pangolin populations are in decline in Asia and Africa due to habitat loss and overhunting ... March 14, 2025 – National Save a Spider Day is a day to help reduce arachnophobia and make people aware ...

SEMO professor Lucas Kirschman wins a Royal Entomological Society Journal Award for his research on wolf spiders, revealing ...

Peacock spiders are well known for their elaborate dances – but their extraordinary jumps smash speed records.

A fungus named in honor of Sir David Attenborough is warping the bodies and even minds of spiders in Ireland. Researchers found that many Metellina merianae spiders across Ireland have become ...

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I hate spiders. Be it in real life or up on the big screen, they freak the hell out of me, and even merely thinking about one crawling up my leg sends shivers down my spine. Because of this phobia ...