Hell is this mouse-eating spider
Terrified of spiders? Then look away now. Horrifying footage has emerged of a giant huntsman spider making its way through a household in Australia – clutching a dead mouse. Jason Womal, from Mackay in...
View ArticleThis spider is ‘f-ing demon spawn’
These daunting photos of a massive Huntsman spider are taking the internet by storm – and arachnophobes everywhere are terrified. The colossal creature, pictured crawling across a broom, was snapped by...
View ArticleGiant spider spawns hundreds of babies in woman's mailbox
A young student in Australia discovered a huntsman spider building a nest in her mailbox. She decided to let the giant spider do its thing, and now the mailbox is full of hundreds of baby spiders and...
View ArticleBoy survives bite from super deadly spider thanks to quick-thinking dad
A 10-year-old Australian boy has survived a bite from one of the world’s deadliest spiders after taking a record 12 vials of anti-venom, local media reported. Matthew Mitchell was helping his dad clear...
View ArticleThese spiders have threesomes to avoid getting eaten
Call it 50 shades of arachnid. Male wolf spiders engage in threesomes to avoid the potentially fatal act of courtship, a biologist has found. Matthew Persons, a professor of ecology and biology at...
View ArticleNew bird-eating tarantulas found in South America
Fantastic news for anyone who’s a fan of spiders that are capable of eating birds. Three new bird-devouring tarantulas have been discovered in South America. The discovery came as scientists were doing...
View ArticleIf spiders worked together, they could eat all humans in a year
Humans beware: if the world’s present population of spiders ever get organized, they could eat us all in just 12 months. That’s the shock new finding from a piece of research that is set to give...
View ArticleMan has both legs amputated after spider bite
A Melbourne man has had both legs amputated, and faces a real risk of losing his arms, after he was bitten by a white-tailed spider in Western Victoria. Terry Pareja was visiting family in Birchip when...
View ArticleWoman lives in a home with 1,500 tarantulas
Ming Cu is a 28-year-old in Indonesia who has an unusual hobby: She collects tarantulas. Since 2010, she has spent over $55,000 collecting 1,500 spiders, which she spends up to 10 hours a day taking...
View Article‘It needs a leash’: Mom finds giant spider in son’s bedroom
A mom in Michigan got the scare of her life when she spotted one of the largest spiders in the world crawling in her son’s bedroom — an arachnid so big, it needed a “leash,” she said. Jillian Duke, of...
View ArticleJumping spiders will chase lasers like cats
Late night on Twitter can be a dark, wormhole of a cave where harassers lurk and trolls attack. But every once in a while, Twitter brings together a group of people whose exchange discovers something...
View ArticleWoman’s headache turns out to be spider living in her ear
This is the disturbing moment a live spider crawls out of a woman’s ear. It was filmed by startled doctors in India after the patient — named only as Lekshmi L. — complained of a headache and a...
View ArticleFive-year-old girl recovers from black widow spider bite
A 5-year-old Massachusetts girl is recovering after being bitten by a black widow spider – leaving her with a bruise that turned a nasty shade, according to a report. Mom Kristine Donovan said she...
View ArticleDriver blames spider for crashing into light pole
COOPER CITY, Fla. — A spider is being blamed for a car crash in the Florida suburbs. Broward Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mike Jachles tweeted that the crash happened Tuesday after the driver saw a...
View ArticleThis spider can build an 80-foot-long bridge with its web
Humans have spent billions upon billions of dollars constructing ways to help us cross water. This spider just sprays a silk thread. The female Darwin Bark spider, which is no bigger than a thumbnail...
View ArticleEnjoy watching this tarantula shed its skeleton
This is literally skin-crawling. A video of a Mexican Red Knee tarantula shedding its skin is the latest molting spider video to creep out the internet. Tarantulas have an exoskeleton that protects...
View ArticleThis is the spider nightmares are made of
An unsuspecting insect becomes dinner in the blink of an eye in a viral video that is terrifying millions online. Slow-motion footage shows the African red trapdoor spider suddenly lunging out from its...
View ArticleReporter totally chill and unaware while huge spider crawls on her shoulder
This reporter’s spidey sense was decidedly not tingling earlier this week. Shannon Murray, a reporter for Fox 4 news in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, barely even flinched as a disturbingly large spider...
View ArticleGiant spider’s 200 babies make mad dash for water
The nightmarish moment a nest holding hundreds of baby spiders crawling over their massive mom in a feeding frenzy has been caught on camera. Queensland, Australia resident Amy Donovan, 44, shared...
View ArticleHalf-spider, half-scorpion — all evil
A man came face to face with a horrific half-spider, half-scorpion monster…and lived to tell the tale. Thomas Acosta, a builder in Queen Creek, Arizona, was inside his home when he spotted the...
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