“You see sort of spiny legs in some arachnids, but we’ve never seen one that really has these big spines all the way along, at least the first parts of the legs. It’s very, very striking,” D ...

THE typical breathing organs of most of the larger recent Arachnids are lung-books. These are thought to have arisen from the segmentally arranged gills of an aquatic ancestor. The presence of ...

Fossil discoveries in Inner Mongolia have unveiled two rare specimens of an extinct genus of giant spiders, shedding light on ...

So far as we can ascertain, the problem of nitrogenous excretion in arachnids needs more investigation. Since the work of Gorup-Besanez and Will 1 in 1849, guanine was regarded as taking the place ...

Although the invasion of Jorō spiders is inevitable as they spread across the southeastern United States, scientists continue to learn more about the giant venomous flying arachnids, including ...

In some sense, they’re our closest companions. These animals are mites—tiny arachnids, related to spiders and ticks. They’re too small to see with the naked eye, and too small to feel as ...

Traditionally, arachnids were considered a terrestrial monophyletic group—meaning they descended from a single colonization event of land by a terrestrial ancestor. However, recent phylogenomic ...

Explore the fascinating world of spiders and scorpions in this thrilling compilation of wild arachnids in action.

Sephora customers are warning beauty lovers not to purchase the skin-quenching Sol de Janeiro Delícia Drench Body Butter, claiming that it entices scarily large arachnids that, in some cases ...

“For countries screening baggage more, or which require a permit to export animals, it’s much easier to just pass [a consignment of arachnids] over your border to the neighboring country with ...

8 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers used cameras to examine jumping spiders while they slept, watching the motions of the arachnids’ eyes and bodies ...