What starts as a simple tour of the reptarium’s massive bug wall quickly turns into one of the most terrifying personal ...

Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig around in: bird poop. That is the approach taken by newly discovered spider ...

Why did evolution produce a spider the size of a dinner plate? The Goliath birdeater offers a fascinating glimpse into life ...

A giant spider in Australia has eaten a bird that became entangled in its web. A golden orb weaver spun a web in a backyard in near Cairns in Australia, then proceeded to devour its trapped prey. What ...

Take the dewdrop spiders, a group of tiny tropical species that specialise in pilfering prey caught by larger orb-web spiders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bird-dropping spider (Phrynarachne decipiens, Thomisidae) is a species of crab spider. It mimics a bird dropping in its appearance ...