“Most spiders that are web-building spiders very much like to stay ... Scientists have documented the lethal parasite ...

Scientists have discovered a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, that turns reclusive Irish cave spiders into zombies.

The spider spends its days down there ... For over 300 million years, these lethal hunters have ruled the skies. They’re the order Odonata. That’s dragonflies and damselflies to most of us. Before the ...

While some might opt for the quick, albeit lethal, method of squashing them, others prefer what they believe to be a more ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...

Watch these hunters use stealth, speed and lethal weapons to dispatch their prey. Watch turret spiders, wormlions, assassin bugs and dragonfly babies use stealth, speed and lethal weapons to ...