A video of a spider eating a bird has appeared on Reddit, with a minute-long clip showing what appears to be a pink toe tarantula ingesting a house wren. The video poster misidentifies the species as ...

Three new species of massive, furry “birdeater” spiders have been discovered, with dozens more stricken from the grouping. In a new paper published in the open-access journal ZooKeys, researchers ...

THE spiders which form the subject-matter of this paper, are probably best known by the comprehensive title “Mygale.” They are also sometimes called crab-spiders, presumably from the great size to ...

The awe-inspiring spiders in the Avicularia genus have long been the subject of fascination. After years of dedicated labor, scientists finally finished cataloging all the species pertaining to this ...