Black widows are solitary year-round except during this violent mating ritual. These spiders spin large webs in which females suspend a cocoon with hundreds of eggs. Spiderlings disperse soon ...

It regularly receives photographic submissions of large, black spiders suspected of being Sydney funnel-web spiders (genus Atrax) or other closely related funnel-webs (Hadronyche). These ...

The spider has since been taken in by enthusiast Jack Casson from Hartlepool, whose girlfriend named her Bessie.

The arachnid in question is a Macrothele calpeiana, or Spanish funnel-web spider, and gave folks quite a fright when they saw ...

Verse. Marvel has been teasing a multiversal war between the Spider-Verse and Venomverse, with the fate of each at stake: the ...