Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." Despite its name, ...

Throughout history, tales of giant spiders have gripped the human imagination — from Arachne, the half-woman, half-spider figure in Greek mythology to J'ba Fofi, the rumored monkey-size spider of the ...

Mr Naskrecki is a Harvard-trained entomologist (insect scientist). Part of his job for the Smithsonian Institution is to collect specimens to return to collections in museums for further study. When ...

NORFOLK -- The pictures may creep you out, but they're fascinating to the folks at the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk. Cameras there caught one of the zoo's Goliath bird eating spiders molting. The ...

A video of a spider eating a bird has appeared on Reddit, with a minute-long clip showing what appears to be a pink toe tarantula ingesting a house wren. The video poster misidentifies the species as ...

Spiders first evolved around 400 million years ago, and some of the eight-legged wonders that appeared all that time ago are also similar to some of the largest seen on earth to this very today. PhD ...

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