There's only one place in the world to escape bat-catching spiders: Antarctica. These arachnids ensnare and pounce on bats everywhere else in the world, researchers say. Bats rank among the most ...

A poisonous species of spider has been found eating bats for the first time. Researchers at the National University of Ireland in Galway studying the noble false widow spider found it preying on a ...

One night in 1941, G.C. Bhattacharya walked in to a cowshed in Calcutta, India and saw a small figure struggling and twisting against one of the walls. It was a small bat fighting its way out from in ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Noble ...

Scientists were aware that spiders ate bats. But they thought it was really rare and maybe the sort of thing that just happened once in a while, like when the bat got tired or sick or otherwise ...

A woman in Texas discovered that she has a horrifying new housemate. Photos and video of a spider sucking the blood out of a full-sized bat were posted to Facebook last week and have since gone viral.

POTEET, Texas – Annette Alaniz Guajardo snapped some pretty incredible photos of a bat trapped in what appears to be the web of a yellow garden spider outside her home in Poteet. “So these are the ...

Today in nightmare fuel: scientists now believe bat-eating spiders to be more widely distributed around the globe than previously realized. According to newly published research, bat-predation by ...

POTEET, Texas – A bat was found trapped in a massive spider web last week in Poteet, and photos of the crazy sight quickly went viral. There was some confusion among some news outlets, however, that ...

The disturbing moment that a giant spider caught a bat in its web and got ready to eat it has been caught in skin crawling images from a Texas farm. Annette Alaniz Guajardo of Poteet, Texas, was ...

A woman was shocked when she came home to find a bat dangling in a six feet spider web outside her house in Texas. Annette Alaniz Guajardo spotted the moment in the morning when she left for work and ...