Newly described scorpion can spray and inject its venom — the first South American species known to do this. A scientist has discovered the first species of South American scorpion that sprays ...

Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species because there’s such a range in the size and anatomy of individual spiders. Now an international team of scientists ...

While out, I also found woodlice, harvestmen, spiders, weevils and my first moth of the year. The chestnut moth overwinters as an adult. While numbers in flight peak during March and October, the moth ...

Here’s how it works. One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest.

So let’s see what we can see! “Rarely seen in battlefield records of the 41st Millennium, the Warp Spiders’ Phoenix Lord was considered apocryphal by Imperial scholars. At one point, she had been ...

Here, we review the processes involved in producing and assessing the quality of recombinant spider silk proteins (spidroins) and the challenges associated with their synthesis and spinning into ...

Almost every Australian is taught, from a very young age, to be cautious around the funnel-web spider. These large, black, aggressive arachnids can be found along the eastern coast of the continent, ...

Female fireflies who murder their mates. These are some of our favorite mating behaviors among insects and arachnids. Stag beetles square off in a wrestling match to defend their resources—which ...

The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" Big Boy would be classified as a separate species The nocturnal black arachnids are usually spotted within around 150 km of Sydney ...

The more common Sydney funnel-webs can grow up to 1.9 inches. The nocturnal black arachnids are usually spotted within around 93 miles of Sydney, Australia's largest city, and are mostly active ...

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its own right. Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study ...

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in Australia. Nicknamed “Big Boy” and living just 100 miles north of ...