Stories of camel spiders and their aggressive nature have been told for generations. Tales of these critters running at high speeds and taking down camels have made the species notorious across the ...

The camel spider - also known as the wind scorpion or sun spider - has taken its place amongst many tall tales and urban legends. They are technically not spiders (which are within the order Araneae) ...

Some animals have a reputation that's hard to shake. Take the camel spider: Many are familiar with them based on photos that came out of the Iraq War in the early 2000s: a giant desert spider with a ...