As undesirable as it might be, we're pretty much surrounded by spiders at all times, and if the arachnids' generally unsettling appearance wasn't enough to make that a vertiginous thought, consider ...

So when it comes to the question itself, myth or fact, the answer is clear. Humans are not eating eight spiders per year in ...

Urban legend has led many to believe that we eat spiders in our sleep, up to as many as eight a year. To put at ease the 3%-15% of people who suffer from arachnophobia (the intense and irrational fear ...

TASMANIA, Australia -- If you have a fear of spiders, a pair of photos going viral probably won't help with that: They appear to show a massive spider eating a possum. Justine Latton's husband, Adam, ...

Most spiders pose very little danger to humans, including the notorious noble false widow (Steatoda nobilis). But the half-inch predator does punch surprisingly far above its weight. According to a ...

A poisonous species of spider has been found eating bats for the first time. Researchers at the National University of Ireland in Galway studying the noble false widow spider found it preying on a ...

TASMANIA, Australia -- If you have a fear of spiders, a pair of photos going viral probably won't help with that: They appear to show a massive spider eating a possum. Justine Latton's husband, Adam, ...