Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 24—This story was originally published in October 2019. Maine is home to hundreds of types of spiders, and some might catch ...

Nine new species of trapdoor spiders from the genus Stasimopus, all from South Africa’s arid Karoo region, have been described in a paper in Zootaxa. One of the species, Stasimopus ignis, was ...

Three new species of an ancient, secretive group of spiders, all native to Hunan province in China, have been described. These “mesothelean” spiders diverged from other arachnid families about 300 ...