Jess Marsh had spent 45 minutes crawling and twisting through the claustrophobic limestone tunnels of the Nullarbor Plain ...

As June ends in the Mountains, I have seen the typical activities of the natural world during this month: songbirds fledging, ...

Researcher Chris Hamilton collects a tarantula in Sonora, Mexico, in an undated photo. Since 2016, Hamilton has been involved in the identification of 15 new species of giant spiders in North America.

Each year, from late spring to early fall, male tarantulas emerge from their burrows across the American Southwest—especially ...

A new study finds that people afraid of spiders perceive them as larger than they really are, while arachnology experts judge ...