The Goliath birdeater's massive size earns it the title of the world's largest spider. The Goliath birdeater, or theraphosa blondi, if using the scientific name, is ranked the largest for its overall ...

Arachnophobes, please, look away. Harvard University entomologist and photographer Piotr Naskrecki recently had a close encounter with a furry jungle creature, which he initially thought was "a small ...

Piotr Naskrecki was taking a nighttime walk in a rainforest in Guyana, when he heard rustling as if something were creeping underfoot. When he turned on his flashlight, he expected to see a small ...

Throughout history, tales of giant spiders have gripped the human imagination — from Arachne, the half-woman, half-spider figure in Greek mythology to J'ba Fofi, the rumored monkey-size spider of the ...

A 40-foot-long model of the golden orb-web spider (Nephila pilipes) — a striking spider found in Asia and Australia — hangs above the Spiders Alive! exhibition. (©AMNH/R. Mickens) A fishing spider ...

Giant spiders have long been reserved for nightmares, myths and Harry Potter. But a scientist found a huge spider in real life, after a puppy-sized one surprised him on a nighttime walk in the Guyana ...

Spiders first evolved around 400 million years ago, and some of the eight-legged wonders that appeared all that time ago are also similar to some of the largest seen on earth to this very today. PhD ...

A fishing spider waiting by a small puddle for prey, a golden-web-spinning spider and some of the world's largest tarantulas — including the massive Goliath bird-eater — are among the cast of ...