One of three methane-eating, deep-sea spider species recently discovered off the Southern California coast. Courtesy of Shana Goffredi By Erin Rode , Contributing LA Outdoors Editor June 16, 2025 ...

Move over, dogs. We’re entering the spider days of summer. When it warms up, spiders come out of their hidey-holes. Not to tan, but to catch their bread and butter: bugs. The arachnid awakening ...

Heat-trapping methane may be best known for the dangers it poses to humans and Earth’s atmosphere, but in the dark depths of the ocean, the greenhouse gas is a nourishing meal for some of the ...

As far as anyone knows for certain, brown widow spiders have only resided in Southern California for a decade or so -- the first in the region was spotted in Torrance in 2003.

People who’ve lived in Los Angeles long enough have probably come across a black widow spider or two. But maybe not recently. That’s because black widows are disappearing from Southern California, ...

Spider webs with baby arachnids in them are falling from the sky in California. The clots of webbing come, as seen by residents, when individual threads intertwine, according to Larabee.

The slow-moving spiders are typically dark brown. Tarantulas can be seen scuttling throughout most of California, Perry said. The arachnids dig their burrows in areas with lots of brush and sandy ...

Researchers discovered methane-eating sea spiders in deep underwater ecosystems off Southern California, highlighting unique adaptations to methane seeps and their ecological significance.

In fact, each of the three sea spider species collected for the study were from different areas off the coast of Southern California and Alaska — a clue that the populations are highly localized.