There's only one place in the world to escape bat-catching spiders: Antarctica. These arachnids ensnare and pounce on bats everywhere else in the world, researchers say. Bats rank among the most ...

A spider feeding on a bat may sound strange and taken straight out of science fiction. But researchers have reported such an event from Kerala. It was a giant wood spider ( Nephila pilipes) that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Michel Dugon of the Venom Lab at National University of Ireland Galway with a Noble False Widow (Steatoda Nobilis) spider ...

The venomous noble false widow spider was found eating a baby bat in a home in North Shropshire. Wildlife artist Ben Waddams made the shocking discovery when he came across the spider in his attic. He ...

One night in 1941, G.C. Bhattacharya walked in to a cowshed in Calcutta, India and saw a small figure struggling and twisting against one of the walls. It was a small bat fighting its way out from in ...

There's only one place in the world to escape bat-catching spiders: Antarctica. These arachnids ensnare and pounce on bats everywhere else in the world, researchers say. Bats rank among the most ...

Scientists in Galway have published the first record of a noble false widow spider feeding on a protected species of bat in the UK. The new study, titled Webslinger Versus Dark Knight, published in ...