Spiders

The flashy abdomens of male peacock spiders may serve a very important purpose.

A man caught a spider eating his goldfish in midair. This is creepily common among semiaquatic spiders, which live across the globe.

A man who felt a tickling and scratching sensation in his ear soon discovered something horrifying: A spider had crawled into his ear.

Susie Torres didn't expect that the strange 'swishing noise' she was hearing would turn out to have eight legs.

In southeastern Colorado, male Oklahoma brown tarantulas will soon begin their annual migration to reach the prairies where female spiders live.

How do you spot a "shooting star"? Well, you don't look for eight legs; that's for sure.

When Australia got too hot and dry, which killed off forests, these woodland creatures decided to live underground.

For this arachnid, mammals are on the menu.

Does the idea of a spider using its web to catapult itself at high speeds give you the willies? Then be forewarned: the triangle weaver spider (Hyptiotes cavatus) does just that.

An itchy feeling had an eight-legged source.

Bowie was right; there really is a "spider" from Mars.

Like the white-armored and -helmeted Stormtroopers from "Star Wars," these spiders are tough to tell apart.

In the Amazon lowlands, spiders as big as dinner plates dine on opossums.

A new species of tarantula has something in common with the mythical unicorn — a prominent "horn."

Paleontologists working in South Korea found ancient spider fossils with mirrors in their eyes.

Sometimes spiders scare people so much that the cops have to deal with it.

There's a whole range of reasons you don't want to be bitten by a black widow spider, but you probably wouldn't think that losing the ability to pee is one of them.

Don't worry; it's for mating.