Black widow spiders live in cool, dark places. Know how to spot brown widows. Keep them away from your home, avoid a bite.

Research officer, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland Australia is infamous for its deadly snakes, spiders and sea creatures. One of the most notoriously dangerous is the ...

Brown recluse spiders move in during the fall. Know where they live, keep them out of your home and avoid a bite. What you ...

Smaller male spiders get more action than their bigger counterparts because they mature faster and are quicker on their feet, new research shows. Researchers directly observed two competitive contexts ...

The redback spider's scientific name: The redback spider is one of the most well-known spiders in Australia because of the red stripe on its back. The redback spider is known by its common name, but ...

It has all the makings of a fight night special: with speed and skill, a scrappy redback spider takes down an eastern brown snake over ten times its size. In reality, this spider just got very, very ...

Some spider males sacrifice more than their genitals. They positively encourage the female to eat them—because that buys them time to complete copulation. The male redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti ...

For some species of spiders, mating comes with a deadly risk — the possibility of being eaten by their much larger female partner. But in two species of widow spiders — the venomous spider group that ...

An encounter at an LPGA pre-qualifying tournament gives new meaning to the concept of golf course hazards. A rookie on the Ladies European Tour was bitten by a spider during a round in Canberra, ...