Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movie was shot in north central Wisconsin 50 years ago on a scrawny budget, rushing under a tight timeline and with a script ...

Biologists have discovered a new tarantula species in Cuba that is bigger and hairier than other spiders in its genus. A new study, "A hairy giant among dwarves," published this month in the Journal ...

A team of scientists in Ecuador is on a mission to find and describe species of an understudied, often unpopular group of critters: mygalomorphs, a group of large, stocky spiders that includes ...

When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the heaviest body. A few species are genuine monsters on both counts. Others are ...

"The Giant Spider Invasion" to get new scenes and editing. Bill Rebane, the movie's original director, will lead the effort to fix problems he's fixated on for 50 years. While the scenes will be new, ...