The psychedelic earth tiger, a dazzling rainbow tarantula from India, now faces extinction due to the illegal pet trade.

If there was a mother of the year award for spiders, the ant mimicking spider would surely win.

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

Source: William Eberhard, used with permission. Spider webs can be beautiful, intricate, and deadly—but what can they tell us about the spiders who build them? There are over 3,100 species of ...

There aren't many fans of spiders, and most people probably don't spend much time worrying about what spiders eat. The average person thinks of a spider as a carnivore, eating flies trapped in their ...

Jumping spiders are native to the U.S. and make great pets, bug lovers say. Investigators did not say what species of jumping spider was involved in the animal cruelty case. Laurie Sheppard/USFWS A ...