If you thought Australia’s spiders were scary, wait until you see the prehistoric version. Scientists have found a fossilised giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales, only the fourth specimen of its ...

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.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth in ...

An Australian company has created a significant evolution of the construction industry in the form of Charlotte, a spider-like robot capable of building houses.

Spider crabs have the dual challenge of being delicious and needing to moult, and once a year, this spells trouble.

The extraordinary anti-predator strategy of two tiny, orb-weaving spider species has been uncovered by scientists from The ...

ATLANTA — Not everyone would welcome a web of giant spiders outside their front door — but for Lee Guthrie, it’s a sight he’s grown to love. To the right of his porch, several Joro spiders have built ...