Cavers found an “extraordinary,” first-of-its-kind spider colony in a cave along the Albania-Greece border, photos show and a study said. Photo from Marek Audy via Urák, Vrenozi, Głąbiak, Lecoquierre, ...

Morning 4 is a quick roundup of stories we think you should know about to start your day. So, let’s get to the news. If you’ve noticed an increase in spiders lately, perhaps wrapping your porch up in ...

Eddie Brock, aka Venom, is one of Spider-Man’s most hateful and powerful foes. The disgraced reporter bonded with the dark alien Symbiote suit after Spider-Man discarded it and transformed into Venom.

San Jose resident Paulina Goff Stovall began her career as a professional pumpkin carver at age 18, just out of high school, when she carved a 600-pound pumpkin in the shape of a funnel web spider for ...

Just as the weather starts to turn, the spiders begin to come out. Spider season has arrived for western Washington. “I moved from a place that had its fair share of different, more dangerous spiders, ...

The dawn is calm, 50 degrees and foggy. This is quite a change from the clear evening that we had last night. The weather service said this widespread fog would remain for the morning. I decide to ...

They’re big. They’re yellow, in part. And they’re invasive. But Joro spiders, now spinning their webs in carports and forests in South Carolina, are not as dangerous or as destructive as many of the ...

Early laboratory tests show that the compound, known as Hi1a, blocks the stress signals that tell oxygen-deprived cells to shut down. Human trials are scheduled to begin later this year. The discovery ...

For reasons unknown, there have been lots of coincidences in my life this week. To start it all off, a big old fat barn spider outside my front door. She’s enormous. Easily the biggest barn spider ...

Scientists in Australia studying the venom of funnel-web spiders found a compound that hijacks the nervous system, preventing a key signal from transmitting to cells. They found that this compound can ...