Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

A second sighting of a Huntsman spider in Napier’s Pandora area could be the last - unless the species can survive a Hawke’s Bay winter. Cor Vink, arachnid ...

A breed of Huntsman spider appears to be establishing itself in Napier, an arachnid expert says Associate Professor of Entomology at Lincoln University Cor Vink said he had been told of two ...

Just a week after a new funnel-web spider specimen was hailed as the largest ever found, arachnid experts have published a paper suggesting that there are actually three species of the world’s ...

Guanmenshan huntsman spiders appear small, about half an inch in length, the study said. They have eight eyes, eight legs and hairy “yellowish-brown” bodies with some “black patches.” ...

Guanmenshan huntsman spiders appear small, about half an inch in length, the study said. They have eight eyes, eight legs and hairy “yellowish-brown” bodies with some “black patches.” ...

Guanmenshan huntsman spiders appear small, about half an inch in length, the study said. They have eight eyes, eight legs and hairy “yellowish-brown” bodies with some “black patches.” ...

What do you do when you see a spider in your home? Kill it, put it outside, leave it, or beg somebody else to deal with it?

A giant huntsman spider travelled in a box of bananas more than 3,000 miles from Ivory Coast to the UK - and spooked staff at a primary school. The spider - a Heteropoda venatoria - hitched a ride ...

A giant spider species from Africa has been found at a London primary school after hitching a ride to Britain aboard the kids' bananas. Dani Zenith, a teaching assistant at the school in Croydon ...