Some animals have a reputation that's hard to shake. Take the camel spider: Many are familiar with them based on photos that came out of the Iraq War in the early 2000s: a giant desert spider with a ...

A friend got mad the other day because on a recent list of mine (52 animals that would make fantastic sports mascots) I didn't include camel spiders. In fairness, they do have a good name that ...

Camel spiders aren’t venomous and don’t really go after humans, but that have been known to chase after them (top speed 10 mph), which is pretty scary. Here's a tidbit from National Geographic: These ...

LANDER - You say camel spider, I say wind scorpion - let's call the whole thing off. It turns out camel spiders are native to the American West - we just don't call them camel spiders. And they don't ...

Israel (WCMH) — It may be a thing of nightmares, but in fact the camel spider is relatively harmless to people. A group of campers in a forest in central Israel caught the massive camel spider.

When you think of animals with large, powerful jaws, chances are you envision nature's fiercest predators — the great white shark, the grizzly bear. But one of the most ferocious jaws in the animal ...

Figuring out how to love a seemingly unlovable camel spider took Justine Quirk on a strange journey her sophomore year at Great Falls College Montana State University and earned her the nickname "The ...

Arachnophobes, beware! The latest creature feature confection from producer Roger Corman and director Jim Wynorski will be skittering its eight legs to DVD shelves this March. Save us, Brian Krause!