Pests like spiders and scorpions are staying active longer than usual across the Southwest this fall, including Southern Nevada, due to ongoing mild temperatures [1]. This extended warmth delays the ...

Although an animal’s common name often helps describe its characteristics and/or relationship to other animals, common names can be misleading. One arthropod reported from the periphery of the Rolling ...

They have a venomous stinger on one end, pincers on the other and a segmented body with eight legs and a bunch of eyes in the middle. They're spiders' even more frightening arachnid cousins. And as ...

Unregulated markets could lead to species becoming vulnerable. Spiders, tarantulas and scorpions may be creepy to many, but it turns out there's a gargantuan market for arachnids as pets, and it is ...

It's the stuff you'd see in your nightmares, and an Arizona man came face to face with it. Its common name is the camel spider, wind scorpion or sun spider; however, it's not a spider and it's also ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

Over 500 million years ago, a small marine creature swam through Cambrian waters. Its name: Mollisonia symmetrica. Long thought to be a distant relative of modern horseshoe crabs, new research now ...