Venomous funnel-web spiders are typically only found in Australia, but another species that builds similar-looking webs can ...

Jumping spiders are all the rage among entomologists, but an entire genus living in New Zealand's South Island rocky alpine regions, comprising 12 different species, has managed to evade human ...

They visited 19 alpine sites altogether and collected 170 spiders for analysis (oh, to be a scientist hiking Aotearoa New Zealand’s South Island in search of adorable spiders).

Orb-weaving spiders take about two hours to create a new web. They start by drifting a silk line across a gap using the breeze. Different types of spiders have slightly different designs.

Three new types of spiders have been found in deep-sea habitats, far beyond the reach of sunlight, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This week, I will be traveling back home from Florida, so once again I am using a great column that was written by my colleague, Paul Hetzler. Spiders can be dangerous, but mostly in ways you ...