Everyone loves spiders. The only thing everyone loves more than spiders is a lot of spiders all in the same place. The only way this scene could be improved, popular opinion holds, is if the many ...

High above the rivers of Madagascar, a small arachnid is quietly rewriting what I thought was possible in nature. The ...

When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the heaviest body. A few species are genuine monsters on both counts. Others are ...

The web houses a colony of approximately 110,000 spiders from two different species Scientists have discovered the world’s largest spider web in an underwater cave on the border of Greece and Albania.

Currently, more than 46,000 spider species stretch their eight legs in habitats across the world, in every country and continent except Antarctica. And those are only the ones scientists have been ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

This study with shocking results found that if all the spiders in the world organized, they could eat us all in just 12 months. The study was published by The Washington Post, and the results are set ...