In the forests of South Africa lurks an arachnophobe’s nightmare – Nephila kowaci, the largest web-spinning spider in the world. The females of this newly discovered species have bodies that are 3-4 ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth in ...

Discover Michigan’s biggest arachnids, from harmless house hunters to bold web builders that rule local backyards.

Spiders make up one of the largest populations of invertebrates in Michigan. There are approximately 50,000 species of ...