Spiders are some of the world’s most misunderstood creatures. These arachnids, which have been around for around 400 million years, consume billions of disease-causing mosquitoes and crop-destroying ...

Meet the man who lives with over 1,000 tarantulas — and travels up and down England helping people overcome their fears of creepy crawlies. Aaron Phoenix, 37, began accumulating them in the summer of ...

Who's afraid of spiders? Well, quite a lot of people it seems. Spider phobia is one of the most prolific of the specific phobias and it afflicts people across a range of geographical and cultural ...

The phobia of spiders is known as arachnophobia (uh-RAK-noh-FOH-bee-uh). The term is constructed using two old Greek words: arachne, which translates to spider, and phobos, which translates to fear or ...

Fear of spiders, open spaces, fear of heights? Virtual reality comes to the rescue as a tool to treat phobias, prove researchers from SWPS University, Gdańsk University of Technology and Jagiellonian ...

Eye-tracking experiments reveal a curious contradiction: people tend to avoid looking at spiders when other creatures are present, yet striking features such as large eyes, bright colors, and webs ...