Don't reach for a shoe the next time you find a spider in your home. Squishing some types of spiders can create even bigger issues, so try this method instead.

Have you been seeing more venomous spiders in and around your Mississippi home lately? Here’s how to identify them and keep them away.

By Stephen Beech Spiders originated in the sea half a billion years ago, suggests a new study. Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may have first evolved in the ocean rather than on land ...

An expert in the biology of spiders, Dr. Rovner provided some insights on these eight-legged creatures, and I learned some more about spiders that might just replace fear with fascination.

Spiders and their arachnid relatives may have actually originated in the sea, according to analysis of an "exquisitely preserved" fossil that lived 500 million years ago.

Isabella Vaughn, a master's student in horticulture, fruit breeding and genetics in the Bumpers College of Agriculture at the University of Arkansas, is a spring 2025 recipient of the Corliss ...

Researchers found that the world-infamous parachuting joro spiders will attack and eat each other in certain conditions. (Kade Stewart photo) ...

Killer Fur: There’s Only One Poisonous Rodent In The World, And It Can Take Out An Elephant Rat poison? No, poisonous rat.

Spotting poisonous flowers can be tricky since toxic plants are often visually appealing. However, certain characteristics can help you identify them. For example, bright colors, distinct smells ...

These ‘Weird’ Sea Spiders Don’t Have Abdomens—and Instead Store Organs in Their Legs. With DNA, Scientists Are Learning Why Researchers sequenced the knotty sea spider’s genome for the ...