Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

Future experiments necessitated the presence of animals in space, so a variety of other creatures made the journey ... animals are capable of surviving spaceflight. The golden orb spider was used to ...

Spider Ballooning. Image via Openverse. Though most people envision spiders as earthbound creatures, certain species have developed the ability to glide through the air. Known colloquially as “flying ...

Researchers on Australia's Antarctic icebreaker say some of the sea creatures they have been collecting ... These include sea spiders "as big as your hand", sea stars "that grow to the size ...

In the depths of the ocean, near the South Sandwich Islands, a remarkable marine creature has been filmed. This is not an ordinary spider, but a sea spider, an organism that astonishes with its ...

Welcome to the world of eight-legged creatures; the Cane Spider! Cane spiders are known to be large spiders having long hairy legs. There are various cane spiders in different sizes and colors ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep-sea ­creatures on a newly exposed ... myriad life forms including giant sea spiders, octopuses and icefish, Schmidt Ocean ...

Many spiders of the species Tegenaria pagana live in caves with limited vision, while others inhabit brighter areas. This variation has drawn scientists to examine how genes guide the development of ...

Some spiders glide for short distances while others travel thousands of miles! Spiders have been observed as high as two and a half miles up in the air! These small creatures move along wherever the ...

the machine’s camera captured a creature that appeared to be “all legs” walking across the seafloor, according to a March 18 Facebook post from the institute. “Huge spider alert!