One of the UK’s largest breed of spiders have had the biggest mating season on record as efforts to re-establish the species in the UK receive a major boost. From near-extinction 14 years ago, the ...

Quick Take Dolomedes plantarius is the great raft spider. These spiders came back from the brink of extinction. Peat bogs and ...

A zoo in the United Kingdom is celebrating a decade of reviving a species that nearly became extinct. In a Facebook post, the Chester Zoo marked the release of thousands of giant fen raft spiders, ...

What’s going on with all the spiders in Michigan right now? If you’ve noticed an increase in spiders lately, perhaps wrapping your porch up in web, there’s a reason. No, spiders have not increased in ...

Meet the man who lives with over 1,000 tarantulas — and travels up and down England helping people overcome their fears of creepy crawlies. Aaron Phoenix, 37, began accumulating them in the summer of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — There are more than 500 species of spiders in Oregon, and soon they’ll be breeding. Eeek! Every autumn, the Oregon Department of Agriculture sees an uptick in spider reports ...

No one has been killed by a funnel-web spider since the antivenom was introduced. If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away. But ...