Spiders

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.

One dark night in the Guyana rainforest, herpetologist Andrew Snyder serendipitously shined his flashlight on "a small glint of brilliant, cobalt blue" sticking out of a rotting stump.

Do you have a cluttered coffee table or a stack of boxes from that last move you've never gotten around to putting away? Good news — your tendency toward untidiness isn't unhygienic.

Babies as young as 6 months become vigilant at the sight of creepy-crawlies.