Spiders

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.

One unique arachnid found not only in the Sonoran Desert but also in the Mojave and Chihuahuan deserts is the desert tarantula. Check out these amazing photos of desert tarantulas.

It would take a lot of energy for a heart to pump blood through all those long legs.

An incredible video shows what Darwin's bark spiders can do.

Thousands of spiders spun a web "blanket" that covered a field in New Zealand.

A male jumping spider will sing and dance for any female, even if she isn't his type.

Luckily, this wandering spider isn't as venomous as some of its relatives.

Hug a spider. They eat up to 880 million tons of insects each year.

Spiders' survival instinct in harsh conditions builds massive colonies.

Avicularia, a confusing genus of large "birdeater" tarantulas, gets a scientific makeover in a new study.

One autumn night while searching for spiders in his backyard, Matthew Persons came across something unexpected: a wolf spider ménage à trois.