A strange, yellow, spider-like creature with four near-black eyes and large bulbous claws has been pulled from the depths of the ocean off Antarctica. The never-before-seen animal is a sea spider — a ...

Reanimating dead spiders to use them as robot claws, licking rocks, backwards talking and a toilet that scans "anal-prints": this year's Ig Nobel prizes again put a spotlight on the quirky side of ...

Have you ever found yourself transported back to the Middle Ages, without your trusty shotgun and chainsaw hand, and forced to combat the forces of evil and their Army of Darkness? No? Count yourself ...

Researchers identified a new species of sea spider near Antarctica’s Ross Shelf, a study said. Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash More than a thousand feet beneath an expansive ice shelf, a “slender” ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Amateur cave explorers have found a new family of spiders in the Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon, and scientists have dubbed them Trogloraptor — or cave robber — for its ...

Crab spiders are voracious little predators. They typically are sit-and-wait hunters that ambush insects passing close by, grabbing a victim with two sets of long claws. Small prey can be captured ...

More than a thousand feet beneath an expansive ice shelf, a “slender” creature scurried through the frigid depths of the Antarctic waters on its “long” legs — straight into a huge net. Researchers ...