Huge spiders to colonize United States
- 12-Mar-2022
Big and scary-looking Joro spiders have spread from Asia to the southern United States and are now poised to colonize the country’s cooler climes — but they’re nothing to fear and might end up actually helping local ecosystems. That’s according to scientists who have been studying the arachnid invaders since they first arrived in Georgia […]
Mystery of creepy ‘spiders’ on Mars solved after 20 years
- 08-Apr-2021
Astronomers have determined that 'araneiforms' (Latin for 'spider-like') are actually caused by carbon dioxide vapor escaping from cracks in polar ice in the spring.
Shoes boxes with creepy crawlies caught in Australia
- 04-Apr-2017
SYDNEY: Australian customs officers got more than they bargained for when two shoe boxes arrived from Europe with venomous snakes, exotic spiders and scorpions found slithering inside the “creep crawly cargo”. The unusual discovery was made at Melbourne last month in two boxes marked shoes sent through the mail in a consignment identified as coming from […]
Australian zoo urges people to catch deadly spiders
- 25-Jan-2017
MELBOURNE: An Australian zookeeper on Tuesday urged people to catch and donate deadly funnel-web spiders, to help replenish stocks of antidote running low after a spate of spider bites. The Australian Reptile Park, the country’s sole supplier of funnel-web venom to antidote producers since 1981, relies on the public to hand in spiders that are […]
Australia zoo urges people to catch deadly spiders as antidote runs low
- 24-Jan-2017
SYDNEY: An Australian zookeeper on Tuesday urged people to catch and donate deadly funnel-web spiders, to help replenish stocks of antidote running low after a spate of spider bites. The Australian Reptile Park, the country’s sole supplier of funnel-web venom to antidote producers since 1981, relies on the public to hand in spiders that are milked […]