One of my students at Sheffield Hallam University sent me this stunning picture of a very large, and in the UK, very rare spider. She spotted this whilst working as a volunteer surveyor at the Belmont ...

In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...

A Largs-based band will be performing in The George this weekend and will be rolling back the years with some classic covers from the 70s and 80s.

Deep in outback Australia, a group of scientists has discovered a mysterious new type of spider. Only 12 species of Kwonkan spider have been officially described and little is known about why each ...

Over 800 marine species have recently been discovered including a guitar-shaped shark off the coast of Mozambique. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks to marine biologist, Lucy Woodall.

Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders, and of course, kids. Now some students are not just learning about insects ...

Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise ...

From the innocent daddy longlegs to the harmful brown recluse, here are the most common house spiders, how to identify them, ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...