A paper recently published in Zootaxa documents the 48 species of ground-hunting spiders from the family Miturgidae, which can be found across Australia, particularly in arid habitats in open eucalypt ...

Scientists say the three species use methane, with the help of bacteria, to get energy while helping prevent methane from ...

There are many species of spiders in Tennessee, but only two are venomous, according to the Vanderbilt University Medical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — There are several different types of spiders that can appear inside and outside of your home in ...

A spotted orb weaver is shown in its web Upcountry. It is one of approximately 205 species of spiders in Hawaii, of which an estimated 77 species have been introduced by people accidentally or ...

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

Scientists recently uncovered the existence of six new species of "ghost spiders," one of which was discovered at a Brazilian power plant. Ghost spiders, a subset of spider species that belong to the ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of trapdoor spider lurking in California’s coastal sand dunes. The newly identified Aptostichus ramirezae is a close ...

A biologist recently discovered a new species of cave spider in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge. It's getting a name from the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation.

Michigan is home to more than 500 species of spiders. These seven can be hard to miss.

Spiders have a reputation for giving some humans a fright, but a team of scientists has flipped the script to learn why one increasingly visible species seems to have an edge on handling stress. Jorō ...

On a remote tropical island in the Atlantic Ocean, a pair of marooned pirates have been discovered. While they lack eyepatches and cutlasses, the two new species of pirate spider certainly live up to ...