A trapdoor spider, known only as “Number 16,” was first documented to science in 1974. Amazingly, it survived until 2016.

The insects are thought to have been taken from the Madre de Dios region in the Peruvian Amazon. They are now in the care of authorities. Tarantulas are a threatened species, Walter Silva ...

The world’s largest hornet, native to Asia, had arrived mysteriously in 2019, but intense eradication efforts prevented the ...

Slingshot spiders (Theridiosoma gemmosum) don’t just passively wait for their prey to find its way into their web. Instead, they take action. These arachnids–also called ray spiders–pull the center of ...