Discover the truth — and a few debunked myths — about the octo-legged, cobweb-spinning, lurking arachnid: The spider.

The arthropods can tailor their toxins depending on whether they are hunting prey or defending themselves from predators, ...

You might think the bigger the animal, the more it should cost on both legal and illegal animal markets. These four creepy ...

it’s a far cry from any spider. The lomankus edgecombei creature, belonging to an arthropod group called the megacheirans, has a single long, modified leg at the front of its body to capture prey.

What is clear is that Joros are not exceptionally aggressive spiders - quite the opposite, in fact. Davis, whose research ...

Japanese spider crabs are the largest, spanning up to 12.5 feet from the tip of one front claw to the other. They’re also one of the world’s largest arthropods, animals with no backbone ...

The arthropod group constitutes spiders, centipedes, and insects. This newly discovered species of ancient arthropod has been ...

If you've noticed an increase in webs appearing around your neighborhood, there's no need to call Spider-Man. What you're ...

wrote a paper in collaboration with one of his students that was published in the scientific journal Arthropoda in May 2023, showing that Joro spiders are “extremely shy” compared to other ...

That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who announced this week that he had ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...