Every summer, Oregon’s biggest spider crawls out of the shadows and into homes, racing across floors and walls as it hunts for love.

A fossilized spider unearthed in the grasslands of eastern Australia has turned out to be the largest of its kind ever discovered on the continent—and possibly one of the largest fossil spiders found ...

Careful where you step if you’re hiking in Griffith Park or other natural areas of Southern California this summer and fall. Some particularly large eight-legged friends are on the march. Yeah, we’re ...

Four newly discovered tarantula species were just dubbed the "Genital King," and for tarantulas, size really does matter. The species are all under the genus Satyrex, which loosely translates to the ...