In a quiet lab in Bayreuth, Germany, a team of researchers has achieved what has long eluded geneticists: modifying the ...

A large, multicolored orb arachnid, called the Joro spider, is causing a stir in the media thanks to its arrival and rapid ...

For years, the CRISPR-Cas9 genome technology has been reshaping genetic engineering, a precision tool to transform everything ...

There are several funnel-web spiders, but the most well-known is the Atrax robustus. These arachnids, found in Australia, are "large, black aggressive spider[s] with large powerful fangs," said the ...

Strangely, sun spiders are known to kill, but not eat, ants. They dispatch the ants quickly, leaving piles of ant bodies ...

Spiders aren't the only 8-legged animal found in nature. There are other animals, mainly arachnids, that have eight legs.

Some species in the genus Arkys are not triangular at all and instead resemble bird droppings as further camouflage. These ...

Nobody knows for sure, but experts have a few theories. Sun spiders are arachnids in the order of Solifugae. There are over 1,000 species within the order. Common names include sun spider ...