A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version ... and thus indirectly helped lead to the new fungal species’s discovery.

Spiders might cause some ... that lose limbs – but not all. This new research, which has not been peer-reviewed, took a closer look at how juvenile tarantulas compensate for the loss of their ...

To date, we know of some fifty thousand spider species, though, like this magazine, they are hard to keep up with, since new ones pile up every week. Scientists suspect the true number is at least ...

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Similarly, a new species of fungus has been discovered that parasitizes spiders, which normally hide in the shadows, and guides them to open areas, and this has been published in a paper.

A fungus named in honor of Sir David Attenborough is warping the bodies and even minds of spiders in Ireland. Researchers found that many Metellina merianae spiders across Ireland have become ...

A New Jersey law that allows prosecutors to unilaterally decide whether children are tried as adults is causing devastating ...

A new zombie pathogen has been discovered in Ireland. This insidious fungus infects cave spiders and alters their behavior to help spread its spores to new victims. Later expeditions found similar ...

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Oh what a tangled web we weave when the multiverse becomes part of Spider-Man canon. The Spider-Man film franchise started simply enough, with 2002’s “Spider-Man.” Fast forward 20 years and ...

Marvel has announced they are bringing Spider-Man into a whole new kind of manga world with the original new series, Spider-Man Manga: Shadow Warrior now in the works for a launch later this Fall.

Over the last few years, the Spider-Verse and Venomverse have both exploded with new characters in blockbuster comic book series like Edge of Spider-Verse and Venomverse Reborn. However ...