Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has led to a surge in environmental noise. The sounds of traffic, airplanes, ...

The results provide evidence for the hypothesis that spiders crouch to sense differences in web frequencies to locate prey ...

An American and a Japanese were among people who helped identify the mystery spider sac photographed by a Singaporean. Read ...

The spider has since been taken in by enthusiast Jack Casson from Hartlepool, whose girlfriend named her Bessie.

A groundbreaking study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln biologists has revealed that funnel-weaving spiders, also known as ...

As Europe’s biggest ever spider arrives in the UK in a batch of olives from Cordoba in southern Spain, we take a look at the ...

Fantastic Four member Thing arrived to take Creature X into custody, which is where Lynda overheard Thing refer to Spider-Man as “web-head.” She liked the name so much that she decided to adopt it as ...

A nursery owner in West Sussex got a shock after an eight-legged stowaway was found on a shipment of olives from Cordoba, ...

The arachnid in question is a Macrothele calpeiana, or Spanish funnel-web spider, and gave folks quite a fright when they saw ...