A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to the UK, arriving in a West Sussex nursery hidden inside an olive tree ...

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of ...

Large numbers of spiders are entering homes as Europe’s largest spider was found at a nursery. The Spanish funnel-web spider, which is thought to be Europe’s largest, was spotted at a plant nursery in ...

"He rang me and said there's something big just walked across ... which includes the trapdoor spiders and tarantulas. "We only have one native mygalomorphae in the UK and they are much, much ...

They are big too, females being larger than males attaining up to 2cm in body length, whilst males at about 0.5cm are much smaller and easily overlooked. They are not dangerous to humans.

Pauline Smith, 51, said she bought the bananas from Aldi in Montrose, Scotland, and was about to drive them home when she noticed something strange ...

Large numbers of spiders are entering Oxfordshire homes as ... This follows the news last year that tarantulas were confirmed in the UK by BBC researcher Adele in the form of Britain’s only ...