Beginning a chain of events that will presumably lead to the origin of our universe's Spider-Man, researchers in Germany have ...

With so many kinds of eight-legged bugs running around (nearly 3,000 species in North America alone!), the most common house spiders are bound to pop up in your abode from time to time. And with ...

There are nearly 250 species of wolf spiders in the U.S. and Canada. These spiders don’t spin webs to catch their prey.

In a quiet lab in Bayreuth, Germany, a team of researchers has achieved what has long eluded geneticists: modifying the ...

There are nearly 3,000 spider species in North America alone, making identifying a common house spider difficult. Is it just a harmless little guy? Or a venomous predator waiting to pounce?

Scientists created the world's first gene-edited spider, which spins webs that glow red under the right lighting conditions.

thereby shooting baby tarantulas all over the house? Misconceptions like these are probably the reason arachnophobia (fear of spiders) is the second-most-common phobia. These are also just a few ...