The eight-legged insects vary in size and shape, with the smallest spiders in the world coming from the family Symphytognathidae, according to Guinness World Records. Spiders of this family can be ...

Tangle-web spiders can catch prey up to 50 times their size thanks to their pulley system-like hunting strategy. Photo by Emanuele Olivetti It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie. A hapless ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee is home to 132 endangered species, ranging from birds to clams, but one tiny critter is the only one of its kind to be listed in the state. As the U.S. Fish and ...

A subgroup of air-breathing, terrestrial (land) arthropods, spiders are not actually insects but rather belong to the Class Arachnida (a.k.a. arachnid). Besides spiders, other arachnids include ...

More than 43,000 different spider species roam the Earth, but these creepy crawlers do not always go bump in the night. The eight-legged insects vary in size and shape, with the smallest spiders in ...