Few creatures have earned a reputation as chilling as the Sydney funnel-web spider. Found across eastern Australia, this ...

A 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient creature related to the modern-day spider was recovered encased in fool’s gold in upstate New York. The new species is distantly related to arachnids like ...

A bizarre arachnid that has a dog-like head has been snapped in a series of photographs that shows just how wild and wonderful our natural world is. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

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If you read the stories recently about the new “monster” daddy longlegs species discovered in the forests of southwestern Oregon, you probably won’t want to take a hike there anytime soon. But for ...

If you've ever tossed a spider outside only to find it back in your house the same day, here's what you're doing wrong (and ...

We admit it. Spiders have become an obsession at Wired Science. It started in September when we reported on a spider-milking machine that was built to extract silk from a million golden orb-weavers, ...

Source: Maximilian Paradiz, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Several years ago, biologist Daniel Wiegmann of Bowling Green State University decided he needed a new ...

A spider relative called a harvestman trapped in amber could shed light on how arachnids were affected by the extinction that wiped out dinosaurs. The 100-million-year-old arachnid, which looks like ...

Source: Maximilian Paradiz, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Several years ago, biologist Daniel Wiegmann of Bowling Green State University decided he needed a new ...