"Spiders do not usually run towards people when they sense danger. This would be like humans running towards something like ...

The king cobra, at 18 feet, is the world's largest venomous snake, utilizing neurotoxic venom to kill large prey. Armed ...

A reader captured this spider nest in the Kruger National Park. Our expert explains. Vanessa Nieuwoudt from Pretoria writes: I took this photo in the Kruger National Park. Which spiders live in such ...

According to a 2011 study in the journal Animal Behaviour, removing one palp reduces the spider's body weight and increases its endurance, thereby boosting its ability to fight.This finding ...

Those round shells and long legs give Japanese spider crabs an arachnid-like look, hence their common name. These animals also have spines behind and in front of their short eye stalks.

A 10-month-old spider monkey at a Florida zoo had to have its arm amputated after it was involved in a freak accident. The ...

Mar. 7, 2025 — When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of ...

Fortunately, fatalities are fairly rare; the spiders are nonaggressive and bite only in self-defense, such as when someone accidentally sits on them. The animals most at risk from the black widow ...

A young spider monkey named Sully lost his arm after it got trapped in a mesh-style fence ... In a post on social media, the zoo wrote in part, "We pride ourselves on being a safe place for our animal ...

Michael Robison, 45, rescued Winston four years ago after authorities busted an illegal animal broker. Michael is the founder ...