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 ...

Females are a dull brownish gray but — like their namesake, the peacock — male sparklemuffins pull out all the stops in the ...

As Europe’s biggest ever spider arrives in the UK in a batch of olives from Cordoba in southern Spain, we take a look at the UK’s largest spiders and the story of a man who ended up in hospital after ...