New Zealanders might want to check their luggage twice — because some eight-legged travelers may be making themselves at home. Giant Australian spiders, like huntsman spiders, are showing up in ...

The spider doppelgängers are made of prey carcasses, plant debris, and other organic materials. They have a central structure ...

Right now, as you read this, more than 110,000 arachnids are crawling around the world’s largest spiderweb. The ‘extraordinary’ but skin-crawling discovery was made inside a pitch-black cave on the ...

The Chester Zoo in England reports that the fen raft spiders "just had the biggest mating season on record" after they almost became extinct Alamy The Chester Zoo is looking back on a monumental ...

Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible discovery – a giant communal spider web spanning more than 100 square meters ...

Giant spiders the size of a human hand have had a record breeding year in the UK following conservation efforts. A decade ago, Chester Zoo released thousands of fen raft Spiders after the species was ...

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say. When you ...

The Chester Zoo is looking back on a monumental achievement. The English zoo celebrated 10 years since they released thousands of giant fen raft spiders into the United Kingdom after the species ...