Discover the truth — and a few debunked myths — about the octo-legged, cobweb-spinning, lurking arachnid: The spider.

Uncover the golden fossil of Lomankus edgecombei, a 450-million-year-old arthropod, offering rare insights into ancient ...

"[These] forums show that people collect spiders a bit like people collect Pokemon – they want to 'catch 'em all'," says Alice Hughes, associate professor of biology at the University of Hong Kong ...

That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who announced this week that he had ...

If you’re exploring nature in California this fall, there’s a chance you could be sharing the trail with one of the largest ...

Wolbachia, a common bacteria found in about half of all insects on the planet, was detected as members of GGC’s biology department were studying the genetic makeup of Joro spiders found in the ...

First, the most frightening of the bunch: spiders. I get it, they’re not the prettiest, nor the most inviting, but they are so important, and honestly a little cute (in my opinion). The most obvious ...

The findings are detailed in a study published October 29 in the journal Current Biology ... Arthropods include modern spiders, horseshoe crabs, centipedes, and insects. This new species ...

As head of the Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Labs at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Adrian Smith shows the surprising beauty and science behind these ants and their ...

So, Georgia Gwinnett College's professor of biology, Dr. James Russell and student Nicholas Mizera, took to work. Russell was studying the genetic makeup of the spider to see if there was any ...

The male spiders are most frequently spotted crawling ... the more secretive females to mate with,” said Ron Ruppert, a biology professor at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo.