Australia is home to lots of adorable furry things, like wombats and koalas and platypus, but it’s also home to some…
In case you were unaware, the male nursery web spider is a kinky little rascal.
Well, really he’s a relative of the modern-day daddy longlegs. But what matters is that you can see his massive…
A West Virginia assistant prosecutor apparently warned his co-workers that he was “deathly afraid of spiders” before…
In today’s Pissing Contest, we’re talking about our worst encounters with bugs. (Thanks to reader Chad for the…
An Indiana woman named Angela Kipp was backing out of her driveway when she noticed a spider hanging out on her…
For male spiders, sex often ends with something really unpleasant: Death. Fortunately for at least one species of nope,…
On the list of many, many irrational fears I have, waking up with a spider and/or spiders living inside my body…
I did your week's grocery shopping, wasn't that nice of me? Reach inside this bag and see what delicious treats I've…
A very frightened man in Seattle burned down the house he was renting when he tried to kill a spider with a makeshift…
A Kansas woman has been charged with arson after setting a fire in her home that was part of a failed attempt to kill a…
It's a question we've been avoiding for far too long: Can lady spiders really have it all? Well, unless by "have it…
The British Tarantula Society held its annual expo in Coventry, England this week. It's the biggest tarantula event in…
If Spiders terrify you (yes!), the news that they "twerk" will either allay your fears or terrify you even further.
If you’re one of those smug Californians who’s always going on about fish tacos and great weather and avocados and…
We've known for a while now that lady spiders are the animal kingdom's OG misandrists. Lady spiders hit it and quit it…
New research has disabused Spider scientists (technical term, I assure you) at the Smithsonian of a long-standing…
Well, this is romantic. It has been discovered by researchers at the National University of Singapore that males of a…
Spiders are creepy! I mean, they are kind of neat, but mostly they cause people to scurry away in fear and sometimes…
Because they feed on it! Just kidding — actually, fear just makes spiders look bigger, as scientists determined when…
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