Riverside Reptiles Education Center in Enfield has some new residents on view: several different types of insects from around the world including some with hundreds of legs, deadly venom, and even a ...

Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square meters in a sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border. The multilayered web ...

Scientists have discovered a giant spider web spanning about half the size of a tennis court and with some 111,000 spiders in a cave on the border between Greece and Albania. The web in the "Sulfur ...

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 ...

The dark depths of southwestern China’s cave systems are patrolled by pale spiders smaller than a Tic Tac. Like many other cave creatures, these arachnids sport noticeably undeveloped eyes. Some lack ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Zombie fungi are nothing new. For decades, scientists have ...

Two new species of short-tailed whip scorpions have been found living deep inside the cool, humid caves of northeastern Brazil, a study reports. Whip scorpions are not true scorpions, but rather part ...