A two-year study into the Australian wishbone spiders by experts from Queensland Museum, Western Australian Museum and the University of Western Australia has resulted in the description of 55 species ...

If you discover a cellar spider in your home, you usually want to get rid of it as quickly as possible. With their long, thin ...

Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave. That's NPR's science podcast. Reporting this week, we have Rachel Carlson. Hey there. RACHEL CARLSON, BYLINE: Hey, Mary Louise. KELLY: Hey. And ...

With a top speed of almost 3.6 metres per second, Queensland's brown huntsman is the world’s quickest, according to a new lab ...

Jumping spiders are an obsession for me. But it wasn’t always so. I also learned that jumping spiders may be in decline. In tropical forests, finding them in a matter of minutes used to be easy, says ...

If you despise spiders, then you know the struggle seeing these creepy crawlers make their way into homes and gardens during the autumn season. While most types of spiders commonly seen at home are ...

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Spiders are some of the world's most misunderstood creatures. These arachnids, which have been around for around 400 million years, consume billions of disease-causing mosquitoes and crop-destroying ...

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion constellation reveals about the life cycles of stars. Time now for our science ...