The knotty sea spider, Pycnogonum litorale, is not actually a spider, but it does represent a significant early branch in the genetic family tree that includes spiders, as well as scorpions, ticks and ...

Spiders are some of nature's creepiest and crawliest creatures, but some species might be getting a little bit less scary: they're going blind. New research published in the journal Molecular ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of trapdoor spider lurking in California's ...

Some ants might actually not be ants at all, and instead be other animals pretending to be them. Pictures from a new paper in the journal Biology Letters show ants, other insects and spiders that all ...