Scared of tarantulas? You're not alone — but Jeni Ruisch, director of outreach for the entomology department at The Ohio State University, is here to debunk their bad reputation. Tarantulas: friends ...

In 2002’s Spider-Man starring Tobey Maguire as the titular hero, Willem Dafoe took on the role of Spider-Man’s first enemy, Norman Osborn, a.k.a. the Green Goblin. He’s the father of Peter Parker’s ...

With a palm-sized frame and yellow stripes on its back, the Joro spider has become a name that sees your dreams and feasts on your screams after a study concluded the species could soon migrate up the ...

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, IN (WPVI) -- A spider scared a driver so badly that she jumped out of a moving car without her child. The woman told police she was backing out of the driveway when a spider landed ...

“Are you scared?” I asked the person next to me. We were both crouched over a tarantula roughly the size of my hand, our faces inches away from its hairy legs and enormous, fanged chelicerae. “No,” he ...

WELL, THEY’RE BIG SPIDERS THAT MOST PEOPLE HATE, BUT THOUSANDS OF TARANTULAS. ARE COMING OUT OF HIDING FOR MATING SEASON. AS I’M WEARING SANDALS. THAT’S NOT A GOOD FEELING RIGHT THERE. YEAH. NOT GOOD.

Tarantula mating season is here — and if you're in the Southwest, you might see hordes of these fist-sized spiders marching across the landscape. From late summer through fall, male tarantulas emerge ...

Could the fungus from The Last of Us that infected humans and transformed them into zombies exist in real life? The zombie fungus is real but not nearly as deadly. In the real world, Ophiocordyceps ...

The Joro spider has drawn all sorts of reaction on social media The colorful spider's leg length is 6-to-8 inches, but only females get that big The spiders may not just crawl up the East Coast – it's ...