A rare and unsettling event unfolded in the quiet town of São Thomé das Letras, located in Minas Gerais, Brazil, when hundreds of spiders appeared to "rain" from the sky. The surreal spectacle ...

The arachnid in question is a Macrothele calpeiana, or Spanish funnel-web spider, and gave folks quite a fright when they saw ...

Jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers at The University of Manchester are already working on such projects and aiming to lead the ...