The UK’s largest breed of spiders, which can grow to the size of rats and hunts fish, are making a comeback in Britain. From near-extinction in 2010 - when only a handful remained as their wetland ...

Has this ever happened to you? You get up, stretch, throw on a robe, open the door to get the paper or walk the dog and NEARLY WALK FACE FIRST INTO A SPIDER WEB WITH A GREAT BIG HONKING SPIDER IN THE ...

Giant spiders the size of a human hand have had a record breeding year in the UK following conservation efforts. A decade ago, Chester Zoo released thousands of fen raft Spiders after the species was ...

Almost 50 years after “The Giant Spider Invasion” made its brief, sci-fi mark on American film culture, what one expert expects to be “zillions,” of massive spiders are expected to invade the East ...

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Imagine walking outdoors and, suddenly, out of the sky drops a spider the size of your hand right onto your head. Ok, it’s unlikely, but not impossible. Not with the Joro spider spreading across the ...

Even though its brain is smaller than a grain of rice, this spider plans ahead, adapts mid-hunt and outsmarts prey larger ...