Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

While these two spiders are technically cousins, there are many differences between a redback spider vs black widow spider. If you live in an area where both of these spiders exist, can you tell them ...

Fuzzy, long-legged spiders may attack their prey with an ingeniously gruesome tactic — by covering them in toxic digestive fluids. "It really looks like there's something in these digestive fluids ...