You’re walking back to the house at dusk. Thinking about dinner. Not thinking about spiders. Then you hit a web. Across the face. There’s a big shape hanging in it. If you spend a lot of time outside, ...

A rare “giant spider” appears in restored grasslands, a sign that the habitat has once again become ideal for predators today.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Great Smoky Mountains National Park is asking for the public's help tracking down huge venomous bright yellow spiders. The national park said the Joro Spider, originally from East ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Tet Zoo needs more frog articles. Too short ...

A Washington College professor is calling on residents in the state to help track the expansion of the Jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata), an invasive species previously seen in large numbers only in ...