Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...

Since they don't spin webs to trap prey, they must hunt for their food, usually consisting of large insects. Female wolf spiders carry the egg sacs in their jaws, and once the babies hatch ...

Almost all spiders are venomous, but there are few, at least in North America, that have venom powerful enough to injure a ...

It regularly receives photographic submissions of large, black spiders suspected ... jumping, huntsman and wolf spiders. However, even the funnel-web's more closely related mygalomorph cousins ...