Deep beneath the Balkans, a massive sulfur-fed cave hosts a colony of 111,000 spiders in one shared web, defying typical ...

The rare spider has never been spotted in Staffordshire or Worcestershire before, National Trust bosses say [Matthew Rigby] A rare species of spider has been spotted at a National Trust conservation ...

A new species of spider was recently discovered near a forested area in Nong Rong, Phanom Thuan, Kanchanaburi, in western Thailand. The spiders were presented to researchers at the Chulalongkorn ...

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 critically endangered spider has been rediscovered on the Isle of Wight after being unseen in the UK for 40 years. The find at the National Trust’s Newtown National Nature Reserve was acclaimed by ...

A critically endangered spider, which hasn’t been seen in the UK for four decades, has been rediscovered on the Isle of Wight. The National Trust’s Newtown National Nature Reserve hailed the discovery ...

As a scientist, discovering and describing a new species is rare. Some researchers may go their entire careers without such a discovery, while others dedicate their work to the taxonomic frontier. For ...

Brazil's Butantan Institute identified a new mite larvae, Araneothrombium brasiliensis, feeding on a spider in a museum ...

The new orb-weaver species was one of three significant discoveries made during a survey at Ecuador’s Tiputini Biodiversity Station, researchers said. Photo by Madeline Hogan via Unsplash Deep in the ...

Even as some scientists search for signs of life beyond Earth, other researchers have been discovering new species on our own humble planet faster than ever before. From high up in the mountains to ...