A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

When William Shatner expanded his career beyond Star Trek, he played a cowboy veterinarian in a wild sci-fi horror movie ...

Some spiders build delicate little nets, others colossal web megacities, and now some in Peru and the Philippines have been ...

This spider doesn’t run or hide when danger strikes. Instead, it builds a fake version of itself — and predators fall for it.

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting ...

They’re in your yard, on your walls, in your attic, and there’s probably one near you right now. The thought of these creepy ...

Tropical orb-weaving spiders craft giant spider-like puppets in their webs. Scientists say the decoys may deter predators, ...

The arachnophobes have come to a decision: jumping spiders can stay. The other spiders must leave, but jumping spiders are ...