In a new study led by the laboratories of Prof. Prashant Sharma of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dr. Efrat Gavish-Regev of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a team of researchers has ...

Camel spiders aren’t venomous and don’t really go after humans, but that have been known to chase after them (top speed 10 mph), which is pretty scary. Here's a tidbit from National Geographic: These ...

It's the stuff you'd see in your nightmares, and an Arizona man came face to face with it. Its common name is the camel spider, wind scorpion or sun spider; however, it's not a spider and it's also ...

Arachnophobes, beware! The latest creature feature confection from producer Roger Corman and director Jim Wynorski will be skittering its eight legs to DVD shelves this March. Save us, Brian Krause!

To science they are known as “solifugae.” They can grow up to one foot in length. Stories about these seemingly mythic creatures started surfacing when U.S. soldiers encountered them in the first Gulf ...

A spider wrangler of sorts, Paula Cushing has traveled to every desert in America tracking down different types of arachnids. Her most recent study -- the camel spider -- has brought her research team ...

Although an animal’s common name often helps describe its characteristics and/or relationship to other animals, common names can be misleading. One arthropod reported from the periphery of the Rolling ...

This week on Cult Movie Worship we have two equally disturbing movies. One’s about giant killer spiders, the other’s about the Scandinavian wood nymph, the huldra. Plus, check out the latest scifi ...

A man came face to face with a horrific half-spider, half-scorpion monster…and lived to tell the tale. Thomas Acosta, a builder in Queen Creek, Arizona, was inside his home when he spotted the ...

A viral Reddit post displaying a video asked viewers to identify a long-legged critter that was digging through some dirt. Shared by u/Klausensen on the forum 'Oddly Terrifying,' the post received ...

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