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

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 ...

A “serendipitous” discovery offers new insights into how ecosystems can thrive beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice ...

Joel Brown, 20, is accused of breaking into Gaming Giant, a family-owned collectibles store in Fairfax, and taking off with ...

When I was in elementary school, I was no stranger to nightmares. Though many of them featured outlandish scenes of giant ...

Evelyn Cheesman had 200 insects named after her, got trapped in a giant spider's web and accidently sent a poisoned spear to King George V. But as a female scientist, Evelyn Cheesman, from ...

How do you treat a spider bite and what are the symptoms to look out for? - With a rising number of people going to hospital ...

A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to the UK, arriving in a West Sussex nursery hidden inside an olive tree ...

Casino Royale auditions runner-up Henry Cavill was the favourite when Amazon boss Jeff Bezos polled fans.

Care home residents stroked snakes and lizards and handled huge hairy spiders as part of a day of wildlife encounters ... a scorpion, a gecko and some giant Madagasca snails by the home’s manager ...

Colombian energy giant Ecopetrol has polluted hundreds of sites with oil, including water sources and biodiverse wetlands, ...