New Zealanders might want to check their luggage twice — because some eight-legged travelers may be making themselves at home. Giant Australian spiders, like huntsman spiders, are showing up in ...

ATLANTA — Not everyone would welcome a web of giant spiders outside their front door — but for Lee Guthrie, it’s a sight he’s grown to love. To the right of his porch, several Joro spiders have built ...

A large, brightly colored invasive species called the Joro spider is on the move in the United States.(Video above: A report from October 2023) Populations have been growing in parts of the South and ...

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say. When you ...

Arachnaphobes, look away — there's a giant invasive spider coming to the tri-state this summer. Joro spiders are expected to start showing up in New Jersey and New York this summer, spreading up from ...

Portrait photographer Joseph Schifferdecker was walking down a street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in September, scouting for backdrops, when his client pointed out “the biggest spider they’d ever ...

The spindly-legged creatures, which are not closely related to spiders, defy expectations of fatherhood in the animal kingdom. An Antarctic giant sea spider sits on the ocean floor at Dayton’s Wall, a ...