The closure of an ancient natural attraction has led to a population explosion of a strange species of gigantic spider. It’s the outcome New Zealand rangers had hoped for when they decided to give the ...

The “unusual” Nelson cave spider is an ancient species and New Zealand’s largest native spider with legs over 5 inches long, ...

A cave-dwelling fish has been swimming the waters of India unknowingly. But researchers have just discovered the mysterious ...

RELATED: Tooth be told: Sea otters have a powerful bite Crawford has been preserving and studying arachnids at the Burke for decades. And he was part of the team studying spiders at the Mount St ...

Spiders aren’t the only animals in nature with eight legs ... Pseudoscorpion (False Scorpion) The tooth cave pseudoscorpion is a small cave-dwelling arachnid that resembles a tailless scorpion.

Spiders have a reputation for being cunning – just look at the Ghanaian folktale Anansi. Now, research suggests that a species of cave-dwelling spiders have cleverly adapted their weaving style ...

But European cave orb spiders (Meta menardi) anchor their webs to cave walls using twice as many silk strands, which appear to vibrate when tripped by unsuspecting crawlers, says Thomas Hesselberg ...

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(CNN) — Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into “zombies.” The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an ...

A newly discovered fungus — named after naturalist Sir David Attenborough — transforms cave spiders into zombies. The species (Gibellula attenboroughii) forces reclusive arachnids into exposed ...