After being rediscovered in Dorset, England in 1980, conservationists came together to save the striking spider through the Back from the Brink project. “The ladybird spider dep ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the ...

Scientists in Kerala have discovered a rare fishing spider that hunts fish in forest streams. The unique species reveals ...

I'm brushing my teeth this morning in the bathroom, when I see a small spider on the wall. 'Cool', I think, 'I'll snap a picture and identify it.' Bend down to rinse, spit, bend up, and it's gone.

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

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

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

Learn more about a parasitic spider mite discovered in Brazil, the second of the genus ever described.