SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – A three-inch long Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) was spotted at a local Santa Barbara County business this fall. The potentially invasive species is harmless ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- 41-old-year, Julio Rangel-Jimenez, of Mexico, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Cristal C. Brisco after pleading guilty to two felony counts of Illegal Alien ...

In a quiet corner of western Thailand, researchers recently uncovered a spider so unique it defies conventional understanding. Not only is this extraordinary spider a member of an entirely new species ...

The discovery, described in the journal Zootaxa, is the first ever recorded instance of a gynandromorph in the spider family Bemmeridae, and only the third known case in the entire group of ...

This spider is female on one side and male on the other due to a phenomenon called gynandromorphism. Credit: Surin Limrudee. By all accounts, it began as an ordinary day in Kanchanaburi, a forested ...

As if the comet hurtling toward us isn’t enough of a cheek-clencher, someone just added spiders. The story caught fire on Facebook after a page claimed scientists found tiny robotic space arachnids ...

While both are arachnids and spine chilling to behold, there are many differences between a male vs female black widow spider. You may not know just how many differences there are between them, and ...

TODAY DURING A SPECIAL CEREMONY. RIGHT NOW TO A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ANIMAL. SCIENTISTS AT UC DAVIS DISCOVERED A NEW SPIDER. CHECK IT OUT. IT’S A TRAPDOOR SPIDER WHICH LIVES ALONG CALIFORNIA’S COAST ...

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