A newly published study co-authored by University of South Florida alum Louis Coticchio and USF integrative biologist Deby Cassill challenges long-standing assumptions about the brown recluse spider, ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

Ick, the dreaded tick! If you're finding ticks in your home, here's how to get rid of them, plus prevent that from happening again.

André, who leaves behind Talisa, his wife Tania (60) and son Jandré (35), contracted a virus after being bitten – not by a ...

The creepies just keep on crawling. First, there was a waterscorpion spotted in the window of a home in Summerland, a couple weeks ago. Now, there is a big arachnid spotted in Phillip Kennedy's ...

The frontrunner for the first-ever casting Oscar has worked with more legendary filmmakers than you can count on both hands.

Imagine walking into tall grass or working barefoot in a field … and suddenly feeling sharp pain on your foot. You've just been bitten by a snake. This is more than a moment of shock; it could be the ...

Most people who spot a black widow in the garage or a brown recluse behind the water heater reach for the nearest shoe. That instinct, while understandable, may be exactly the wrong move. The venom ...

Q: Our indoor-outdoor cats are fascinated by the spiders and spider webs around our house. I am concerned some of the black, ...

The series draws inspiration from the Spider-Man Noir comics but presents a new interpretation of the character ...

The costume design looks pretty much the same as Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but the character himself appears to be different, a much more downbeat iteration of the ...