This jumping spider appears to be staring at you with four giant eyes, but it actually has eight eyes around the top of its cephalothorax (head and upper body). While the largest pair of eyes provides ...

Marvel Animation has shared new details and stills for two of its most highly anticipated TV shows, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and Eyes of Wakanda. The former, according to the official ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Third-grader Skyler Hutto led the effort to make the Carolina Wolf Spider the official arachnid of South Carolina. Wolf spiders eat cockroaches, ants and flies. Wolf spiders have eight eyes, and the ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

While oversized spider likenesses with extra-fuzzy appendages and glowing eyes that show up in Halloween decorations are designed to prompt shrieks, some real-deal arachnids recently elicited squeals ...

Wolf spiders and tarantulas are both maligned and feared throughout the world. They are venomous, as are almost all spiders. Their venom helps them subdue prey. However, neither is considered ...

On the television side of the Annie Awards, Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai picked up six awards, including Best TV/Media – Mature. Blue Eye Samurai’s other wins include the TV/media Annie Awards for best ...

In a remarkable discovery, researchers have unearthed 10 new species of fossilized spiders from the Mesozoic era, including ...

Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai emerged as major winners at the ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Awards, which were held Saturday evening at UCLA’s ...

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...

Researchers funded by the U.S. Navy have used gene-editing technology to make house spiders produce red fluorescent silk. This might seem like a quirky scientific novelty, but the breakthrough is a ...