"Imagine a grape in the palm of your hand. That's about the size of their abdomen," Andrew Davis, a research scientist in the ecology department at the University of Georgia, says. He's talking about ...

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BOSTON - The giant flying Joro spider was nowhere to be found in Boston on Thursday. The paparazzi have been out in full force on Mount Vernon street, hoping to get a shot of the venomous black and ...

Once a spider web has been abandoned, it will start to gather dust and dirt, which is what we’ve come to recognize as a ...

ATHENS, Greece -- It's not quite the World Wide Web - but the spiders of Aitoliko in Greece have made a good start. Spurred into overdrive by an explosion in the populations of insects they eat, ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth in ...

The Australian Reptile Park is home to more than 2,000 funnel-web spiders. But recently the park received a record-breaking creature when someone turned in a large arachnid. The approximately 3.1-inch ...

Researchers have been warning for months that a large, invasive spider species is poised to continue spreading through Georgia into cities along the East Coast. A new study from the University of ...

Giant spiders about the size of a human hand are set to become the latest creatures to roam around the New York City streets alongside the subway rats and the (supposed) sewer alligators. Experts are ...

Spiders are stumbling out of hiding in Seattle this time of year like clumsy singles on a blind date. The big picture: It's ...

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