If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recent study reveals a vast and unregulated global trade in invertebrates, posing a risk of overexploitation of some species in the wild. A group ...

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Residents across parts of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast are reporting sightings of Joro spiders, the palm-sized, ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Horseshoe crabs have never quite fit in with the rest of the ocean's animals. Considered living fossils, their circular bodies and sharp tails are often presented as frightening. But horseshoe crabs ...

Spiders? They're just like us! Well, at least they may be when it comes to their sleeping habits. A new study of jumping spiders found evidence that the small invertebrates may experience an REM sleep ...

In the dense forests of the Ecuadorian Andes, the survival of a spider relies not only on its ability to prey on insects but ...