When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

This spider doesn’t run or hide when danger strikes. Instead, it builds a fake version of itself — and predators fall for it.

Swiss say it may take days to identify severely burned bar fire victims. January 2, 2026. Investigators have begun the ...

What started as a relatively simple spider bite quickly transpired into a diagnosis that gave a man only days to live.

Garages are full of dark corners and forgotten boxes, which makes them an easy place for certain spiders to settle in. Most ...

Spiders can sometimes be dangerous in weird ways. At a Michigan gas station in 2015, a man tried to kill one with a lighter and torched a pump island, and in 2014, a guy in Seattle burned his house ...

Rescue personnel on the island of Kauai responded to an incident on a remote trail near the famous Napali Coast last week after a hiker became incapacitated due to “a rapidly worsening infection from ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of spider living in the state's coastal sand dunes. "These are absolutely beautiful spiders living among the California ...

ATLANTA — They may look intimidating, but researchers say the bite of the bright yellow Joro spider is nothing to fear. A new study from Clemson University, believed to be the first controlled bite ...

The brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa) is found in the south-central United States, from about Nebraska to Georgia. Yet recluse bite reports occur far outside that range, including in states where the ...

Spiders can be found in spades this time of year, both the fake Halloween variety as well as a large yellow species crawling around certain parts of South Carolina. Arachnophobia aside, not much about ...