TORONTO, October 22, 2009 — New research shows that male suitors of a female cannibalistic spider risk facing a premature death unless they perform an adequate courtship lasting a minimum of 100 ...

SYDNEY (AP) — With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world’s most venomous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park, where it will help ...

Female Australian redback spiders have unique ways of controlling who fathers their offspring, Canadian researchers say. Lindsay Snow and Dr Maydianne Andrade of the University of Toronto report that ...