A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to ...

A nursery owner in West Sussex got a shock after an eight-legged stowaway was found on a shipment of olives from Cordoba, ...

A shopper got an unexpected freebie with her bananas when she discovered an egg sac thought to be from a venomous South ...

Taxonomically, they are in the infraorder mygalomorphae which includes the trapdoor spiders and tarantulas. "We only have one native mygalomorphae in the UK and they are much, much smaller and ...

As Europe’s biggest ever spider arrives in the UK in a batch of olives from Cordoba in southern Spain, we take a look at the ...

Conservation charities have accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of making "misleading" claims that rare spiders had ...

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 ...

This follows the news last year that tarantulas were confirmed in the UK by BBC researcher Adele in the form of Britain’s only species, the purseweb spider. The purseweb is a stay-at-home spider ...

The area is one of only two places in the UK that are home to a critically endangered spider called the distinguished jumping ...

Tom Holland has a new co-star in Spider-Man 4, with Stranger Things actor Sadie Sink joining the cast. There are several ...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is now available to stream on Netflix in the UK and Ireland. The film, which was already available to stream on Netflix in the US, dropped on Netflix UK today, ...

This follows the news last year that tarantulas were confirmed in the UK by BBC researcher Adele in the form of Britain’s only species, the purseweb spider. The purseweb is a stay-at-home spider and ...