And now, new research has uncovered a ladybird spider in the wilds of a cork oak forest in southern Morocco — and it’s unlike ...

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

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

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

Spending the summer outdoors means running into a variety of crawling and slithering creatures, whether it's at the lake, on the forest floor or wrapped around your front porch light. While running ...

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 ...

Discover how the diving bell spider constructs a silk platform underwater and uses it to trap air and make a diving bell.