Spending the summer outdoors means running into a variety of crawling and slithering creatures, whether it's at the lake, on the forest floor or wrapped around your front porch light. While running ...

Your nightmares have stepped into reality with a viral video showing an encounter between a dangerous spider and a hazardous snake in Australia. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

A man found a deadly snake stuck in a web of a venomous spider that latched on its tail under a car in his shed. Kyle Andrews was cleaning up his Two Wells home in Australia when he made the discovery ...

And a spider family known as theridiidae, which includes the black widow, took down the most snakes. Indiana Jones might be asking, 'Why did it have to be spiders?' after reading a new report ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. When it ...

There are spiders that eat snakes. Observations of snake-eating spiders have been reported around the world. Researchers consolidated and analyzed over 300 reports of this unusual predation strategy.

Nature lover Robyn McLennan stumbled upon a frightening sight while taking pictures at a winery in Victoria, Australia, last week: a highly venomous redback spider taking on a deadly eastern brown ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Spiders and snakes alone tend to evoke a lot of fear, but imagine how a West Mobile couple felt when they spotted a snake entangled in a spider’s web on their front porch! Even ...

Nature is full of amazing creatures whose species have evolved over centuries to get to where they are today. One amazing adaptation is mimicry, a tool that some species use to trick both predators ...

Spiders, snakes, bats — and big prehistoric-looking lizards. Come October and Halloween, some creatures get scarier to many as their dangerous, frightening and even blood-sucking reputations grow. So ...

Spiders are gross and scary, a fact that even babies as young as six months old seem to know. Aversion to spiders and snakes is a widespread trait that seems to transcend culture lines, but until now ...