Conservationists hope tighter regulations can put the brakes on exotic pet trade
A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other…
Scientists Discover Tiny Spiders Who Build Big ‘Decoys’ For This Clever Reason
If you were to quickly look at the image below, what would you think it was? At first…
Those Strange Zigzag Decorations in Spider Webs Might Finally Have an Explanation
A northern St Andrew’s cross female spider in Australia building a web with X-shaped stabilimenta seen radiating from…
World’s Biggest Spiderweb Spanning 1,140ft Found—and It’s Nightmare Fuel
Arachnophobes look away now. Deep inside a pitch-black cave straddling the Albanian-Greek border, researchers have uncovered what may…
Scientists Found a Half-Male, Half-Female Spider in Thailand and It’s Fascinating
This spider is female on one side and male on the other due to a phenomenon called gynandromorphism.…
New species of spider discovered in California
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of spider living in the state’s…
Former Aiken resident shares history of NASCAR in new book
AIKEN — Faces and places associated with such names as Richard Petty, David Pearson and Dale Earnhardt are…
Tarantula ‘invasion’ underway as mating season begins
Tens of thousands of male tarantulas are crawling out of their hiding spots in New Mexico as they…
Record-Setting Tarantulas Boast Longest Sex Organs to Avoid Getting Eaten by Females
Researchers have just identified four new species of tarantulas whose genitals are so long they had to make…
We Might Have Been Wrong About Where Spiders Came From
Technically speaking, every living thing on Earth can trace its origins to the sea. Some of these earliest…