The new species is a kind of trapdoor spider, a spider known for creating borrows underground with hinged doors.

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of trapdoor spider lurking in California's ...

According to a recent study published in Ecology and Evolution, scientists found that the spider that appeared to be one ...

“I thought, ‘Oh my God! What is that thing?’ I mean they were huge,” said MaryDawn Perry, who was startled Monday when she found two spiders floating in her friend’s swimming pool near Grossmont ...

In a small patch of undisturbed ancient bushland in Western Australia, researchers stumbled upon a rare “jewel.” Hidden in a burrow in the remnants of the Whadjuk boodja, or Perth’s Swan Coastal Plain ...