Instead of traditional naming based on traits or location, a Chinese arachnologist turned to Jay Chou’s discography, naming ...

They also compared newly collected spiders with older specimens in the Australian Museum collections dating back to the early ...

The newly named subspecies. Photo courtesy Kane Christensen.An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most ...

Bob Uecker brought the Brewers to life for generations of fans. And that was just the start of a second career in ...

The world’s most dangerous spider just got deadlier. And they’re on the move, with a baby already bitten this season.

New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing ...

The spider’s sheer size means it could pose an ... and they got to work on the painstaking art of arachnid taxonomy. The scientists dissected the sperm receptacles of females and scrutinised ...

They relied on an existing taxonomy identifying six basic areas ... Their latest innovation is a web-slinging technology inspired by Spider-Man's ability to shoot webbing from his wrists ...

There are many types of crab, from snow crab to Chesapeake blue crab and stone crab (in Japan, spider crab is also ... aside from their basic taxonomy as crabs, the only significant similarity ...