Welcome to season of camel crickets, derived from the rounded hump on the insect's back. They're also commonly known as cave or spider crickets, or even "criders" or "sprickets." ...

Stories of camel spiders and their aggressive nature have been told for generations. Tales of these critters running at high speeds and taking down camels have made the species notorious across the ...

The camel spider - also known as the wind scorpion or sun spider - has taken its place amongst many tall tales and urban legends. They are technically not spiders (which are within the order Araneae) ...

The strange and formidable jaw of the little-known camel spider has been mapped for the first time. The creatures, which are neither spiders nor scorpions, are prominent in folklore around the world.

LANDER - You say camel spider, I say wind scorpion - let's call the whole thing off. It turns out camel spiders are native to the American West - we just don't call them camel spiders. And they don't ...

Recent Internet postings about the photo above of “camel spiders.” It reportedly was taken by a soldier stationed in Iraq. “A colleague sent me this photo of a mysterious desert insect, claiming that ...

An Arizona man got a shock when he discovered a camel spider living in his home. The creatures are most commonly associated with Middle Eastern deserts, but their diverse order of over 1,000 described ...

Figuring out how to love a seemingly unlovable camel spider took Justine Quirk on a strange journey her sophomore year at Great Falls College Montana State University and earned her the nickname "The ...