Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. Scorpions are creatures that ...

While spiders may be scary to interact with, they have many unique behaviors that can make them fun to learn about! Because spiders are so tiny, it may be hard to observe these interesting behaviors ...

Male spiders have a bad reputation in the bedroom. Their arachnid genitals have been described as “numb” and as haphazard as an “elongate, elaborately formed fingernail” trying to perform a complex ...

Whip spiders, also affectionately known as tailless whip scorpions, may look fearsome but they are basically harmless to humans—even if you put them on your face, as I did a couple years ago in an ...

Spiders are generally predatory, with good vision. Most of them have eight eyes. Two large, forward-looking eyes have a lens for sharp focusing, and the rest are in various positions on the head for ...

Although emasculated spiders can no longer be lovers, they are better fighters, a new study says. In many spider species, males have sex using two appendages known as pedipalps. But males will often ...

Although an animal’s common name often helps describe its characteristics and/or relationship to other animals, common names can be misleading. One arthropod reported from the periphery of the Rolling ...

Say the word scorpion in a crowd, and most responsible people will instinctively head the opposite direction, with some apt to doing so while running and screaming. Beside the potential venomous sting ...

Spiders use their eight legs to walk, but daddy longlegs are different in that they use just six legs to walk — which raises the question of what they use those other appendages for. Well, it turns ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Virtual reality experience Arachnophobia is an application aimed at helping people overcome “irrational fears” of extremely venomous and aggressive ...

Four newly discovered tarantula species were just dubbed the "Genital King," and for tarantulas, size really does matter. The species are all under the genus Satyrex, which loosely translates to the ...