With a leg span reaching up to 11 inches, this spider can seem intimidating but poses little threat to humans. Its diet mainly consists of insects and small vertebrates, not birds as its name suggests ...

It is the perfect superhero costume that has withstood the test of time, yet despite that, Jean Grey’s classic Phoenix suit trumps it. Spider-Man and Phoenix are both undeniably strong designs ...

The eyes are windows into the mind, and this research into what jumping spiders look at and why required a clever device that performs eye tracking, but for jumping spiders. The eyesight of these ...

you can count on Halloween being appropriately windy, cold, and spooky. Trick-or-treating only keeps a kid so warm, and we would have loved to happen upon a house with a spider-stomping sugar ...

Halloween is almost here, but one creepy crawler has already marked its return in mass to northeast Georgia: the non-native Joro spider. Richard Hoebeke, the associate curator of the arthropod ...

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