Quick Take Dolomedes plantarius is the great raft spider. These spiders came back from the brink of extinction. Peat bogs and ...

A rare ancient spider in New Zealand is thriving after simply being left alone for a little while. As The Kansas City Star reported, sightings of the Nelson cave spider jumped fourfold in three years ...

A zoo in the United Kingdom is celebrating a decade of reviving a species that nearly became extinct. In a Facebook post, the Chester Zoo marked the release of thousands of giant fen raft spiders, ...

A rare species of spider has been spotted at a National Trust conservation site, in what the charity believes is the first such sighting in the area. Just in time for Halloween, bosses said a visitor ...

In a small patch of undisturbed ancient bushland in Western Australia, researchers stumbled upon a rare “jewel.” Hidden in a burrow in the remnants of the Whadjuk boodja, or Perth’s Swan Coastal Plain ...