Don't reach for a shoe the next time you find a spider in your home. Squishing some types of spiders can create even bigger ...

Researchers sequenced the knotty sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing a missing gene that many other animals ...

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in its legs and barely any abdomen—may be tied to a missing gene. The ...

Introduction: Spiders aren't the only arachnids -- Araneae (spiders) -- Amblypygi (whip spiders) -- Uropygi (whip scorpions, vinegaroons) -- Schizomida (short-tailed whip scorpions) -- Palpigradi ...

A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

Funnel-web spinning spiders of the genus Hololena are capable of fast movements in a horizontal plane across a variety of challenging surfaces. We used two species, H. curta (McCook 1894) and H.

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.

[WATCH: In the video player above, spiders in Ohio that run on water, hunt fish and even frogs.] (WJW) – ‘Daddy longlegs’ are NOT spiders. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently shared ...

B ack in 2018, a bumper crop of new spider assassins was discovered in Madagascar. They represented four new species in the ...