The ‘extraordinary’ but skin-crawling discovery was made inside a pitch-black cave on the Albanian–Greek border. The web stretches 1,140 square feet – about the size of a semi-detached house in the ...

Karen Madorin is a retired teacher, writer, photographer, outdoors lover, and sixth-generation Kansan.

The brown tarantula is about the size of an apple or orange. University of Missouri-St. Louis scientist Becky Hansis-O’Neill ...

Whether you’re touring the wild and exciting underground insect world or examining soil samples as a scientist, Underground Adventure shows how important this ubiquitous organic material is to human ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

Spiders in this toxic sulfur cave have built a thriving spider metropolis and the largest spider web complex in the world!

The extraordinary anti-predator strategy of two tiny, orb-weaving spider species has been uncovered by scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Florida.

Two entomologists said they found the spider with just nine minutes to spare A critically endangered spider, not seen in the UK for 40 years, has been rediscovered in a remote nature reserve ...

The diminutive spider measures in at less than a quarter of an inch in size and was discovered on a remote nature preserve Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has ...

A critically endangered spider, not seen in the UK for 40 years, has been rediscovered in a remote nature reserve accessible only by boat. Aulonia albimana, which was last recorded in the UK in 1985, ...