Tangle-web spiders can catch prey up to 50 times their size thanks to their pulley system-like hunting strategy. Photo by Emanuele Olivetti It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie. A hapless ...

Entomologist Sarah Han has always been into spiders. “I grew up in California and there are a lot of black widows,” says Han. “I would keep them as pets. One day, one of them escaped. That’s a mistake ...

Spiders are not the houseguests most people welcome. They crawl into corners, set up sticky traps of webbing, and have a way of appearing at the exact moment you don't want them to. While some will ...

(CNN) — If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away. But the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging residents of ...