A fungus named in honour of Sir David Attenborough has been found infecting and manipulating spiders in a Northern Ireland cave turning them into The Last of Us -style “ zombies ”. At such a critical ...

Jack Beresford is a Newsweek Senior Internet Culture & Trends Reporter, based in London, UK ... @newsweek.com A woman who decided to leave a spider she spotted on her ceiling "in peace" was ...

False widows are the most dangerous spider species in the UK Two more east London schools have closed because of an infestation of false widow spiders. John F Kennedy Special School, which has ...

The free-roaming spider exhibit at the London Zoo is not for the faint of heart or those who don't like arachnids, but it is fascinating.

False widows are the most dangerous spider species in the UK A seventh east London school has closed because of an infestation of false widow spiders. Eastlea Community School in Canning Town ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting ... Scientists have just discovered a brand new species of spider—and it instantly became the most venomous ...

Almost all of us will have seen spiders in our homes - perhaps walking across the lounge floor, stuck in the bath, or quietly sitting in a ceiling corner. Several species share our living spaces, some ...

Season: These spiders are usually seen in the autumn months when males leave their webs in search of females. They frequently enter homes through open windows, chimneys or gaps beneath doors. A large ...

We have all heard the rumour, right? That over a lifetime, humans swallow around 20 spiders in our sleep. Now, given that the average life expectancy in the UK is over the age of 80, that’s not ...