Staff working at a supermarket in southeast London were shocked when they discovered the potentially lethal insect scurrying ...

Adult female Fen Raft Spiders can grow up to the size of your palm - but arachnophobes will be pleased to hear they are ...

Of all the creeping, crawling critters that potentially pose problems for humans, spiders occupy a special niche. Unlike the biting, stinging pests such as hornets, wasps, snakes, and ticks that ...

The spiders are not venomous but are semi-aquatic and can run across the water’s surface to capture their prey. Recommended reading: BBC researcher confirms tarantulas inhabit these parts of UK Mr ...

A zoo in the United Kingdom is celebrating a decade of reviving a species that nearly became extinct. In a Facebook post, the Chester Zoo marked the release of thousands of giant fen raft spiders, ...

NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia – A reptile park in Australia is warning residents to keep their eyes peeled for a large, deadly spider species as summer approaches. The funnel-web spider is one of ...

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named ...