The word "tarantula" is not commonly used in our everyday language. Yet, everyone immediately knows what it means: a large, hairy spider. Today, people might be more inclined to say "bird spider." But ...

via Wikimedia Commons Rabid Wolf Spiders exhibit sexual dimorphism; males are typically smaller than females yet possess longer legs than their female counterparts. Meanwhile, females have ...

The mother will open the egg sac when ready and stay with the spiderlings until ... It does not build webs to capture prey but actively hunts, similar to the wolf spider. Even with their size, they ...

Unlike other wolf spiders, it produces only 15 to 30 eggs per clutch. The female carries the egg sac in her mouthparts until the spiderlings hatch. One of its primary prey species is the Kauai cave ...

The scale itself is rather small and golden brown in color. What you notice is the large egg sac she carries around like a white pleated oversized backpack. That “backpack” is loaded with 600 ...

Who was I to consign an entire life order to death? I soon discovered a wolf spider living in my bathroom. It’d taken residence in a rolled-up copy of this magazine. I named him Boris.

Joe Bennett is an author and columnist who writes the weekly A Dog's Life column in Saturday's Northern Advocate. What did spiders ever do to us? At what point in the 400 million years that they ...

Wildlife experts have trained three specialised dogs to detect some of Australia’s rarest reptiles, which they say will be a “game-changer” for protecting the species. The three dogs, Daisy ...