T he Malaysian earthtiger tarantula was first described in 1891 by respected Swedish arachnologist Tamerlan Thorell. However, ...

Scientists have discovered a giant spider web spanning about half the size of a tennis court and with some 111,000 spiders in a cave on the border between Greece and Albania. The web in the "Sulfur ...

Phrynarachne storozhenkoi was named in honor of the Russian entomologist Sergei Storozhenko. Phrynarachne gorochovi, found on the island of Luzon, is the first of its genus to be documented in the ...

A giant huntsman spider left primary school staff terrified when it was discovered lurking among bunches of kids' bananas. Kitchen staff called a reptile expert to identify the eight-legged stowaway ...