You would think that a spider with legs over a foot wide is the stuff of fiction or nightmares. No, these massive spiders ...

Japanese honeybees also use heat as a defence mechanism. When a hornet attacks a hive a group of worker bees generate heat by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Zombie fungi are nothing new. For decades, scientists have ...

Have you ever heard of a spider that eats its own web? Chances are, you probably haven’t, but that is what Darwin’s bark spider is famous for. These spiders eat their own silk to produce more later, ...

The tropo-climes of South America are home to many unusual animals. In fact, for arachnophiles the northern part of the continent contains some incredible rainforests worth visiting. In South America, ...

If you thought only humans enslave and imprison their fellow beings, think again. A surprising discovery has come from the ...

Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? Thankfully, no. Researchers explain why and how we’d know if we were swallowing ...