Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

“You’ve got a better chance of winning the Powerball than having a spider fall in your mouth while you’re sleeping,” Floyd Shockley, entomologist and collections manager at the Smithsonian ...

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 too ...