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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new fungus species Gibellula attenboroughii forces reclusive cave spiders to exposed areas, likely to benefit spore dispersal.

Researchers have highlighted a new type of mind-altering parasite that takes over spiders and changes how they act.

While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing ...

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 ...