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 ...

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

Arachnophobes of the world, this is where it all started. Roughly 410 million years ago, the trigonotarbids walked the Earth. One of the first land predators, the now-extinct order of arachnids are an ...

Idmonarachne brasieri is about as close as you can get to a spider without being a spider. In new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists argue that this ...

Fred Ramsdell was on vacation in the Wyoming wilderness when he and two colleagues received the honor for their breakthroughs in immunology. For One Glorious Morning, a Website Saved San Francisco ...

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 ...

In a futuristic Spider-Verse Penny Parker learns to harness her Spider-Man arachnid abilities. @jasminepaigemoore explains in ...

You may have come across a 2004 image of an American soldier in Iraq holding two huge “camel spiders,” one of which had clamped its jaws on the other. Huge. As in, they alone were reason enough to get ...

Ready Check is a weekly column focusing on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, ZA or Sunwell Plateau, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses. This week, we ...

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 ...

An enormous, new, leggy arachnid with a leg span is just over 13 inches (33 centimeters) has been found lurking in the caves of the Southeast Asian nation of Laos. The creature is a type of harvestmen ...