Even by wizarding standards, many defining aspects of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry seem to fall to pieces under ...

Wallabies are running wild on the Isle of Man, and these small creatures are stirring a big debate among locals: should they ...

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The Galileo spacecraft spotted a shape on Europa originally compared to an asterisk, but now seen more as a spider. Whatever you call it, scientists hope explaining the forces that produced this shape ...

The newfound species belongs to the family of 'ladybird velvet spiders' but the bodily features display starkly unusual traits.

Sometimes, the hustle-and-bustle of our busy lives causes us to forget that our lives can be meaningful journeys, not just perfunctory duties and tasks. It’s not easy, for it seems there aren’t enough ...

Just before sunset, as baseball-sized tarantulas cross the road at Colorado’s Southern Plains Land Trust, two biologists quietly exit their car to scoop up a few of these eight-legged pedestrians.

Day 22 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Heart of a Tarantula. This image, made by the James Webb Space Telescope, features the Tarantula Nebula’s star-forming region, seen here about ...

Step aside, Van Gogh. Some spiders are out here making self-portraits for survival. New research shows that several orb-weaving species construct giant web-mounted “doppelgängers” convincing enough to ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." When you purchase ...

Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...