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 ...

"We found that when people received a paired image of an arachnid versus another arthropod, they strongly prefer looking at ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Halloween is for celebrating the scary: ...

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, IN -- A spider scared a driver so badly that she jumped out of a moving car without her child. The woman told police she was backing out of the driveway when a spider landed on her ...