An employee at a Market Basket store in New Hampshire got quite the surprise when he was unloading a shipment of bananas over ...

Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and skittish. However, some spiders are dangerous — or deadly. Several species have ...

Some spiders hunt and kill snakes up to 30 times their size. A study revealed 319 cases of such incidents involving over 40 ...

If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

With the death of a student last year after a spider bite, it is good to know what action you should take if you are bitten.

These caterpillars carry a toxic chemical cocktail and Inquisition-like delivery implements—and their geographic range is expanding ...

This includes the world's deadliest spider, whose secrets were recently revealed. The untold story of the world's deadliest ...

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

While their spindly legs and fat butts might not be everyone’s cup of tea, the vast majority of spiders are completely ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Insects do a lot more harm than ruining picnics. Some insects spread devastating diseases, while others cause staggering economic losses in agriculture. To control some of these ...

These, and the similarly venomous mouse spiders (Missulena), are not altogether uncommon. However, even comparatively mundane spiders are often presented as something more formidable. "Things like ...