If you're scared of spiders, Halloween certainly doesn't help. People decorate their homes with monstrous-looking fake ...

Spiders are not out to get you and actually prefer to avoid humans; we are much more dangerous to them than vice versa. Bites from spiders are extremely rare. Although there are a few medically ...

An empty spider web likely means that a spider has passed on, but most times a spider takes down their own web! Read here to ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for ...

Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible ...

Every year, spiders kill about 20 people worldwide. That’s fewer than scorpions, lightning strikes, or hippos—and a tiny ...

It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that there are all kinds of myths about sleep. We have inaccurate ideas about what prevents ...

A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang goes on a nighttime hike in search of spiders, with Lisa Gonzalez of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Bats, spiders, opossums, owls and black cats aren’t scary — they control pests, pollinate and clean up. Teach kids their value this Halloween.

Fall is in full swing now and it is a treat. Leaves turn from green into bright reds, oranges, and yellows before falling to the ground, leaving the most satisfying crunch when stepped on. A unique ...