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Parasites have been attaching themselves to spiders for millennia. Given the large number of spiders and the wide variety of hiding places they use in habitats around the world, many of these ...

Recently, we learned that a newly discovered type of snake was named after Indiana Jones. Well, after the actor who portrayed him. Now, we’ve got that topped. Because that’s just one snake after all.

The Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus, has been implicated in most human fatalities caused by funnel-web species, and ...

From bird-dropping mimics to legless burrowers, these newly discovered species were hiding right under our noses.

The population of the large, brightly colored invasive species called the Joro spider has been growing in parts of the southern and eastern U.S. for years, and some researchers think it's only a ...

That spider is one of several new animal species recently described by researchers in Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Borneo, and Peru. Each creature has evolved its own strategy for hiding in plain ...

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the toughest materials known to science. That is, it can absorb massive amounts ...

Zoo welcomes four rescued spider monkeys after US border smuggling attempt. AZA, Species Survival Program aid primate welfare ...