Every year, spiders kill about 20 people worldwide. That’s fewer than scorpions, lightning strikes, or hippos—and a tiny ...

The team that found the tiny orange-legged arachnid have named it the white-knuckled wolf spider.

A super-rare species of spider that could have been lost forever from the UK has been rediscovered, 40 years after it was ...

Black widows, infamous for their shiny black bodies and the red hourglass pattern seen on adult females, deliver a painful ...

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It's a quiet autumn evening. You're enjoying some TV, when an unscripted movement catches your eye. A large house spider (Tegenaria domestica) is striding across the rug toward you. You make a sudden ...

Wolf spiders have a reputation for being intimidating, and it’s easy to see why. They’re fast, hairy, and large enough to make anyone jump when one scurries across the floor. In Australia and the ...

When the eight-eyed wolf spider birthed more than 100 babies in his girlfriend's living room, Skyler Hutto had to use all his powers of persuasion to convince her not to slaughter them all. He held ...

Third-grader Skyler Hutto led the effort to make the Carolina Wolf Spider the official arachnid of South Carolina. Wolf spiders eat cockroaches, ants and flies. Wolf spiders have eight eyes, and the ...

Just as the weather starts to turn, the spiders begin to come out. Spider season has arrived for western Washington. “I moved from a place that had its fair share of different, more dangerous spiders, ...

Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH, is a health writer. She has over a decade of experience as a registered nurse, practicing in a variety of fields, such as pediatrics, oncology, chronic pain, and public health ...