The grass spider is one of of the most common critters you'll find in your backyard. Part of the Agelenopsis genus, these arachnids are masters at building funnel-shaped webs in dense vegetation and ...

Image via Depositphotos Even though spiders ... out of the female’s body. After laying the eggs, the birdeater cloaks them in the shape of a ball (approximately the size of a tennis ball) that may ...

Keep reading to find out more about this fascinating eight-legged hairy creature that is the world’s biggest spider. Multicolored hair (technically known as bristles) covers the body of ... eggs ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

Its enormous body lies in a huge glass ... You can find out more in this article by Isabelle Gerretsen. The author of this piece, my colleague Stephen Dowling, has also previously dug into some ...

Its enormous body lies in a huge glass coffin ... tells the story of a colossal squid's life from hatching out of a minuscule egg to becoming the world's largest invertebrate (it was illustrated ...

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...

The spiders don’t survive their encounters with the fungus, so each infected spider is living out its own personal The Last of Us nightmare. It’s a grim fate to end up as a “sporulating ...

A new zombie pathogen has been discovered in Ireland. This insidious fungus infects cave spiders and alters their behavior to ...

It forces them to leave their lairs and hang from the ceiling or wall before they die out in the open ... The fungus infecting the spiders works its way from inside the body to the outside ...

Spiders can reach their top running speeds again soon after self-amputating a limb – a trick that could inspire robots that can move more effectively when they are damaged. When threatened by a ...