For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. "I went from selling three to four a week ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. I’m obsessed with jumping spiders. But it wasn’t always so. While never a spider hater or arachnophobe, I was pretty ambivalent about them ...

Jumping spiders are an obsession for me. But it wasn’t always so. I also learned that jumping spiders may be in decline. In tropical forests, finding them in a matter of minutes used to be easy, says ...

I’m obsessed with jumping spiders. But it wasn’t always so. I also learned that jumping spiders may be in decline. In tropical forests, it used to be easy to find them in a matter of minutes, says ...

SEATTLE — From Fear to Fascination. That's the name of a new exhibit at the freshly-revamped Pacific Science Center that's focused on spiders. The exhibit challenges common misconceptions and explores ...

Butterfly Pavilion, the beloved invertebrate zoo home to Rosie the tarantula and hundreds of other-like creatures, will once again host its special exhibition, Spiders Around the World, for the month ...

In a narrow passage deep inside an underground cavern between Albania and Greece, scientists pushed through waist-deep black water and clung to ropes to make a startling discovery. In the beams of ...

A new study documents fighting and cannibalism between female joro spiders for the first time. But it’s unclear how this plays out in nature. Researchers have been studying joro spiders to better ...