A review back in 2021 documented cases of spiders preying on snakes, turning up 319 reports from every continent except ...

Out of the hole rushed the biggest wild spider I had ever seen. What’s more, instead of retreating – as most spiders do – it ...

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant ...

While crocodile attacks are extremely rare on humans in Australia, or anywhere, they do happen. In 2024, there were three ...

In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

Some spiders build delicate little nets, others colossal web megacities, and now some in Peru and the Philippines have been ...

A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The finding could have implications for a NASA spacecraft en route to the ...

If you haven’t heard of a goanna before, think VERY LARGE LIZARD. It’s a general name for several varieties of monitor lizard that live in Australia. And like so many, shall we say, “startling” ...

Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible discovery – a giant communal spider web spanning more than 100 square meters ...