Luke Paron discusses the vision behind his upcoming short. Paron will soon release a new short film titled “Arachnid,” which blends elements of the horror genre with personalities from the ...

Spiders and insects may not be fan favorites, but they are vital to the health of ecosystems—and scientists barely know how they’re doing. Researchers found that nearly 90% of North America’s insect ...

What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

A sweeping review of nearly 100,000 insect and arachnid species in North America has revealed a surprising and troubling reality: scientists lack even basic conservation assessments for the vast ...

Study finds 88% of North American insects haven’t been assessed for extinction risk In A Nutshell The conservation status of 88.5% of North American insect and arachnid species is entirely unknown, ...

A bizarre arachnid that has a dog-like head has been snapped in a series of photographs that shows just how wild and wonderful our natural world is. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

A strange, spiny-legged arachnid from prehistoric times has been unearthed in Illinois. The newly discovered species, named Douglassarachne acanthopoda, lived around 308 million years ago and was ...