While most people think of spiders spinning webs to catch prey, the Scytodes makes use of a different tactic to paralyze ...

Spiders are not out to get you and actually prefer to avoid humans; we are much more dangerous to them than vice versa. Bites ...

Creepy-crawly spiders shimmy across webs of sugar, butter and flour. Bright orange pumpkin spice cookies fill the house with the scents of fall. Jack Skellington, the skeleton-faced protagonist of ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for ...

The new species is a kind of trapdoor spider, a spider known for creating borrows underground with hinged doors.

San Franciscans have stirred ghoulishness, eccentricity and a dash of political satire into the cauldron this year when it ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang goes on a nighttime hike in search of spiders, with Lisa Gonzalez of the Natural History Museum of Los ...

Among Michigan’s largest, this spider hunts near lakes and wetlands, often mistaken for a tarantula due to size. Known for guarding its eggs tenderly, this brownish spider spans large webs across ...

Now that spooky season is officially upon us, it’s time to pick out the Halloween nail art that you’ll rock till November. While a little ghost or pumpkin decal always does the trick, there are so ...