ATLANTA - With weeks still to go before Halloween, a creepy crawler has made its return to Georgia: the Joro spider.

Sheet web spiders weaponize firefly glow, using their trapped prey as living beacons to catch even more victims.

Autumn brings increased indoor spider activity, with most species like American house and cellar spiders being harmless and ...

Social spiders reveal surprising brain adaptations, showing that teamwork - not bigger brains - drives cooperation, memory, ...

Researchers peered inside the brains of huntsman and crab spiders using microCT scanners and found that while spiders' brains don't have to be bigger for them to live in groups, social spiders are ...

We explain why you see more spider webs in your home in the fall, which spiders they could be, and what you can do.

Over the last year, the massive Joro spider has been spotted in parts of Tennessee. Here's what to know about the creature.

Spider enthusiasts now have the opportunity to be face-to-face with the arachnid and its species worldwide, through a ...

That means cutting down on the insects that attract spiders in the first place: keeping windows screened, sealing cracks, and ...

There have been a whopping 859 species of spider confirmed in B.C., according to the Electronic Atlas of the Wildlife of ...

Researchers believe that's partly down to the spider's 'dark DNA' - a mysterious part of the animal's genetic code, and they are studying it to find out more. They think that this dark DNA might ...

For a group of researchers in Thailand, not only did they discover a species new to science hiding in dirt burrows, but they discovered something else that is extremely rare in the animal kingdom — a ...