Rosie is a freelance writer living in London. She has covered everything from ancient Egyptian temples to exciting medical breakthroughs, but she particularly enjoys writing about wildlife, ...

No one likes walking into a spider web, no matter how big it is, but it's not the size of the web that matters, it's the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Social spiders are known to make communal webs that may host thousands of them, and finding a giant web structure inhabited by an ...

A rare ancient spider in New Zealand is thriving after simply being left alone for a little while. As The Kansas City Star reported, sightings of the Nelson cave spider jumped fourfold in three years ...

Spiders are some of nature's creepiest and crawliest creatures, but some species might be getting a little bit less scary: they're going blind. New research published in the journal Molecular ...

An average of 33 Nelson cave spiders were counted in “Crazy Paving Cave” in 2025, up from eight in 2022, according to officials. Photo by Sebastian Doak shared by New Zealand's Department of ...

A new zombie pathogen has been discovered in Ireland. This insidious fungus infects cave spiders and alters their behavior to help spread its spores to new victims. Later expeditions found similar ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

(CNN) — Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into “zombies.” The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death ...

Deep beneath the border between Albania and Greece, a single spider web sprawls across rock like a living carpet, turning a ...