This is a scientific experiment. Richard Dawkins, the Neil DeGrasse Tyson of evolutionary biology, is broadly credited with coining the term meme in 1976. On Monday, the 79-year-old public ...

Entomologist Sarah Han has always been into spiders. "I grew up in California and there are a lot of black widows," says Han. "I would keep them as pets. One day, one of them escaped. That's a mistake ...

If you see one of the world’s deadliest spiders in Australia, don’t run — catch it. The anti-venom program at the Australian Reptile Park hasn’t been getting enough Sydney funnel-web spiders to make ...

Spiders in the genus Deinopis, which have the largest eyes of any spider, use their humongous peepers to survive in the wild. Credit: David Maitland/getty images Every night when the sun goes down, ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian zookeeper on Tuesday urged people to catch and donate deadly funnel-web spiders, to help replenish stocks of antidote running low after a spate of spider bites. The ...

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 ...

Today in nightmare fuel: scientists now believe bat-eating spiders to be more widely distributed around the globe than previously realized. According to newly published research, bat-predation by ...

Spiders of all kinds often crawl my web sites, and not all of them obey the Robots Exclusion Protocol. Some of them are poorly implemented and are simply ignorant of the robots.txt file. Others are ...

Spiders such as this female wolf spider (with babies on her back) are important predators of many landscape and garden pests. (Photo courtesy Mike Raupp) WASHINGTON — Fall is the time of year when you ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. When it ...