On the hunt for the king of arachnids, the crew encounter a wandering spider in the Ecuador jungle. While Steve is usually pretty hands on with creepy crawlies, he's a bit wary and keeps this one ...

Australia’s infamously dangerous arachnids have revealed a ... this sets off a death spiral for neurons. King’s team has found a funnel-web spider venom peptide that binds to this channel ...

Arachnophobes beware - "spider season" is back. But why does the phenomenon occur and how can anyone who is afraid of creepy-crawlies tackle an arachnid accumulation? Prof Adam Hart, an ...

The arachnid - resembling a spider with a tail - lived about 100 million years ago An "extraordinary" spider "cousin" trapped in amber for 100 million years is shaking up ideas about the origins ...

are a family of over 600 separate genera and over 6,000 separate species of spider. The spiders themselves are curious and ...