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 ...

A woman who was mauled by a dog at a Los Angeles city animal shelter has been awarded $5.4 million by a jury. Genice Horta, 51, said that neither the shelter nor the rescue group she worked for told ...

“There’s danger in this urban paradise.” Huge carnivorous lizards stalk this popular city park alongside humans The world’s second largest lizard has made this Indonesian park their home – alongside ...

Oklahoma remains a high concern state because Oklahoma State University limits medical concern to two spiders, the brown ...

This video examines the tropical banana spider, commonly linked to species known for medically significant venom and unpredictable defensive behavior. Unlike web-building spiders, it actively hunts ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus, has been implicated in most human fatalities caused by funnel-web species, and ...

There have been persistent rumors that Brand New Day is going to be the biggest launchpad for the MCU X-Men yet, with a lot of speculation that the role Stranger Things star Sadie Sink is playing in ...

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 ...

For the second year in a row, New Jersey had no shark bites off its coast. Swimmers elsewhere were not so lucky.

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

Among these, Myrmarachne is the most common, with almost all 300 species exhibiting this behaviour. These spiders move in ...