Finely preserved brain features in a tiny fossil suggest that spiders and their kin may have first evolved in the ocean ...

Matriphagy is a type of animal behavior where the young eat their own mother. It is the ultimate display of maternal martyrdom and takes motherly love to the highest level. You can see it in action in ...

Bill Rebane, the director of the Wisconsin cult classic movie "The Giant Spider Invasion," leads an effort to upgrade the film.

A member of the family Thomisidae, goldenrod crab spiders are both crabby and spider-y. A medium-sized crab spider, these creatures are familiar garden visitors across southern Canada and the United ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they had ever seen.

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say.

The Cerbalus aravaensis spider, a type of huntsman spider, is the largest spider in the entire Middle East. They're big ...

It’s a highlight of the year for diver Violeta Hristova: the mass aggregation of Giant Spider Crabs in the shallows of Port Phillip Bay. Their cue is the full moon in June. That’s when huge ...

The migrating crabs have been swarming in the waters of Kellidie Bay on South Australia ' s Eyre Peninsula for the last two weeks.

Locals and marine experts were left stunned after “thousands” of bright orange giant spider crabs were captured in coastal waters in South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula.