Arachnophobia, the irrational fear of spiders, is widespread. Some estimates claim that about 6% of the population are arachnophobes. If you are one, my apologies for this column. But you’ve probably ...

Spiders that go fishing? They exist! And a new study finds they are more common than previously thought. More than a dozen spider species have been found that catch and eat fish, and they’ve been ...

Not all spiders catch their prey by spinning webs; a surprising number of arachnids quite literally fish for their meals, snatching scaly animals sometimes twice their size. In fact, a new scientific ...

Arachnophobes, stop reading: Researchers have found fish-eating spiders on every continent in the world except Antarctica, they claim in a new PLOS ONE paper published Wednesday. Historically, spiders ...

Spiders are pretty well known as good hunters, feeding mainly on other insects. But new research is showing just how many of them are good at catching — and dining on — fish as well. The study in the ...

When it comes to mealtime menus, spider don't limit themselves to chowing down on insects, researchers have found; some species are happy to feast on small types of freshwater fish their own size or ...

Have you ever wondered what some of the largest spiders in South Carolina might look like? If you haven’t before, you might be curious now. A nursery rhyme that kept waking a woman up at night in ...

Normally when you think of spiders, you think about spider webs lurking in the unoccupied regions of your dry home, but a recent spider discovery in Queensland, Australia will surprise those that ...

The Nilus spider waited on the surface of the water until a fish came close enough for it to strike before hauling the fish on land to eat. The moment was captured by amateur photographer Ripan Biswas ...

Spiders are pretty well known as good hunters, feeding mainly on other insects. But new research is showing just how many of them are good at catching — and dining on — fish as well. The study in the ...