A giant spider, capable of running half-a-metre per ... in Yorkshire by signing up to our newsletter here. No region in the ...

The 43-year-old's hand, arm, leg and even foot ballooned as the venom took hold and he was rushed to hospital.

A giant spider species from Africa has been found at ... wanted to find out what spider it was and is it native to the UK. 'But every time we put it into a Google search, which I know you can ...

Giant spiders are invading Britain's homes - if media reports are anything to go by. Spider identification expert Stuart Hine explains why we see more spiders in autumn, and what you should do if you ...

A SNEAKY spider that becomes “virtually invisible to predators” has been discovered. The critter is described as a “master ...

Taxonomically, they are in the infraorder mygalomorphae which includes the trapdoor spiders and tarantulas. We only have one native mygalomorphae in the UK and they are much, much smaller and ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...

‘None of our UK spiders are medically significant and the last thing a spider wants to do is bite a human hundreds of times its own size. We’re simply not on the menu and spiders don’t go ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep-sea ­creatures on a newly exposed sea floor after an ...

The UK is home to more than 650 different species ... black lace-weaver, the cross spider, the giant house spider and cellar spider, lace-webbed spider, the zebra-back spider – and even the ...

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of ...