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The electric-blue tarantula, Chilobrachys natanicharum, found in Thailand. Image courtesy of Yuranan Nanthaisong

New electric-blue tarantula species is first found in Thailand mangroves

Liz Kimbrough 9 Oct 2023
A golden blue-legged baboon spider.

Study: Online trade in arachnids threatens some species with extinction

Ryan Truscott 1 Mar 2023

That ‘killer’ spider story you read online? Fake news, most probably

Cassie Freund 20 May 2022

Stylish jumping spider named after late fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2019

New Amazonian species of short-tailed whip scorpion sheds light on ‘the mating march’

Mongabay.com 12 Apr 2019

New ‘goblin spiders’ from Sri Lanka named after Enid Blyton characters

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2018

Land plants may have evolved much earlier than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Feb 2018

Webs under water: The really bizarre lives of intertidal spiders

Bhanu Sridharan 15 Feb 2018

50 new spiders discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 12 May 2017

This new spider looks like the sorting hat from Harry Potter

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Dec 2016

New tarantula named after Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jul 2016

7 new brilliantly-colored peacock spiders discovered

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jun 2016

Eight newly discovered species of whip spiders could soon become extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Feb 2016

The enemy of your enemy is your ant bodyguard: spider uses one predator for protection against another

Ariel Mark 9 Apr 2014

Wonderful Creatures: meet the beetle-riding arachnid

Ross Piper 6 Mar 2014

Rare animal species and Buddhist monks in danger of losing their home to cement quarry

Tanya Dimitrova 22 Jul 2013

Two new arachnids discovered in Brazilian caves (photos)

Jeremy Hance 29 May 2013

Scientists discover two mini-spiders in China (photos)

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2013

Scientist: releasing invasive birds in Turkey to eat ticks will backfire

Thomas Handley 4 Feb 2013

Happy Halloween: nine new species of tree-climbing tarantula discovered

Jeremy Hance 31 Oct 2012

Arachnopocalypse: with birds away, the spiders play in Guam

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

Velociraptor spider discovered in Oregon cave (pictures)

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2012

‘The lion of the cave:’ new predatory, swimming cricket discovered in Venezuela

Jeremy Hance 6 Aug 2012

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