However, the serum is dependent on milking live spiders, which is why the Australian Reptile Park is asking the public to help capture and donate them. Following a particularly rainy season with ...

Since then, the Australian Reptile Park’s venom milking program has been helping to produce doses of the life-saving serum. The program houses more than 2,000 spiders that are milked on a ...

And even a nibble from a house spider can leave an uncomfortable welt. Here are some of the most common house spiders you might see in or outside of your abode, how to identify them, and whether ...

Black widows are notorious spiders identified by the colored, hourglass-shaped mark on their abdomens. Several species answer to the name, and they are found in temperate regions around the world.

“These things appear to be essentially spiders with tails!” Jason Bond, an evolutionary biologist at Auburn University in Alabama who was not involved the studies, tells Science. The specimen, which ...