Extracting venom from one of the world’s deadliest spiders is a controlled and highly technical process. Using specialized ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SYDNEY (AP) — With fangs that could pierce a ...

Let’s say you’re on safari in Southern Africa. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so you soak in the sights, traipsing through the sandy shores of Namibia. It’s beautiful, even epic, but dangers ...

Regal jumping spiders are masterful hunters with their athletic leaps, sharp fangs and lethal venom. Regal jumping spiders train themselves from childhood to become masterful hunters. From the day ...

Spiders can take down a wide range of prey items through their pharmacologically complex venoms; conservative predictions place the total number of bioactive peptides in spider venoms at more than 10 ...