Raising offspring is expensive. It costs you time, it costs you money, and for some species: it costs you your life. This is the grisly fate of the African social spider, Stegodyphus dumicola, a ...

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Black widow spiders: Everyone’s heard of them, not only because they’re poisonous but also because of the female’s lurid propensity to widow herself by killing and eating her mate. Unknown to many, ...

From spiders that hunt fish and lizards to baby earwigs battling it out, here’s your chance to get up close and personal with 10 terrifying spiders and insects. 0:00 Intro to 10 Terrifying Spiders & ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Group hunting is rare in spiders; but at half an inch long, these African spiders need all the help they can get - and their elaborately ...

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 ...

When Danielle Halvorson returned home from her vacation in Uganda, she opened her bag to find what she called an "unexpected souvenir"—a huge spider. "I returned from Uganda on June 23," Halvorson ...