A video of a spider eating a bird has appeared on Reddit, with a minute-long clip showing what appears to be a pink toe tarantula ingesting a house wren. The video poster misidentifies the species as ...

Three new species of massive, furry "birdeater" spiders have been discovered, with dozens more stricken from the grouping. In a new paper published in the open-access journal ZooKeys, researchers ...

For the past day, people around the world – at least the ones who can get past a certain spider video without screaming “kill it with fire!” – have been engaged in a rigorous debate about whether ...

As some of the biggest arachnids in the world, bird-eating spiders are many people's idea of a living nightmare. Well, for those with arachnophobia out there, this may not be welcome news as ...

For the past day, people around the world — at least the ones who can get past a certain spider video without screaming “kill it with fire!” — have been engaged in a rigorous debate about whether ...