If you’ve noticed a large, bright yellow spider spinning a golden web between your porch columns or stretched across your ...

A study on why people fear spiders shows that details like webs and large eyes can change how people respond, sometimes reducing fear.

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

There aren't many fans of spiders, and most people probably don't spend much time worrying about what spiders eat. The average person thinks of a spider as a carnivore, eating flies trapped in their ...

Jumping spiders are native to the U.S. and make great pets, bug lovers say. Investigators did not say what species of jumping spider was involved in the animal cruelty case. Laurie Sheppard/USFWS A ...

Source: William Eberhard, used with permission. Spider webs can be beautiful, intricate, and deadly—but what can they tell us about the spiders who build them? There are over 3,100 species of ...

The Pacific folding-door spider is a tarantula relative and derives its name from a combination of the "Greek 'antrodiaitos' (αντροδιαιτος), meaning 'living in caves,' 'antron' (αντρον), meaning 'cave ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for many, the celebrations conjure up images of two specific animals: spiders and ...