The most common place to find Goliath spiders is the Amazon Rainforest, which spans Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, ...

Researchers discovered two new species of trapdoor spiders in northern Australia with uniquely engineered burrows, enhancing ...

Last year, scientists unearthed fossils of the rainforest area from millions of years ago, teeming with specimens including plants, trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas and wasps. Now the area is a ...

The new spider, named Kwonkan nemoralis, was found during an expedition to Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region. Arachnologist Dr Jeremy Wilson didn't find it in the dry grassy savannahs the ...

Since the 1970s, populations of arthropods—a group of animals that includes exoskeleton-bearing critters such as insects, spiders, centipedes, and millipedes—in the Puerto Rican rainforest have ...

While extremely poisonous, the risk of human contact and envenomation is generally low, as these frogs are found in specific rainforest habitats and are not aggressive. Due to their toxicity, poison ...