Spiders

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.

Thieves recently made off with 7,000 bugs and lizards from a Philadelphia museum.

Ever wonder what it looks like when 1,400 tarantulas are born all at once? Wonder no more.

They're showing up in major population centers in the Great White North.

Scientists praise Kidman's heroic act.

While brown recluse spiders are venomous, their alleged bites are often wrongly identified.

Spider eggs are so colorful that they look like candy (but please don't eat them).

How do some spiders fly?

An ancient tick's worst day ever was preserved for eternity.

Yikes.

A female jumping spider went to great lengths in a leaping experiment.

"Number 16," a recently deceased trapdoor spider, was the oldest known spider in the world.

The Olympics are designed to test elite athleticism, at least in the human realm. But what about the animal world? How would arctic foxes fair in the Winter Olympics, or snowy owls for that matter?

A 100-million-year-old spider trapped in amber has something you just don't see nowadays.

Scientists have unearthed desert spiders' underground-tunnel-building secrets.

Here's a look at the gory meal.