While I am a big fan of spiders year-round, now is the time of year when I truly appreciate their presence in my yard as they stalk their herbivorous insect prey. One of the most beautiful spiders I ...

Crabs are some of the coolest creatures out there. And spider crabs are even more impressive. Not only do they look strange—in their ridged, salmon-color armor—but they have so many fascinating quirks ...

A diver was swimming amid thousands of spider crabs off the coast of Victoria, Australia, when she noticed that one of them was trapped by the leg in a fishing line. Watch the moment this diver ...

Many spiders rely on camouflage to survive and catch prey. Audubon just wrapped up our first week of summer day camp, which means I spent a decent amount of time outside with 8 – 11-year-olds ...

Crab spiders, carried gracefully along by the wind beneath their spun silk parachutes, get to live the fantasy of any imaginative child who’s ever held a kite string and dreamed of flying. As these ...

This spooky footage shows an amazing sea life experience of rows and rows of crabs lining up across the bottom of the sea. An ...

Crab spiders are voracious little predators. They typically are sit-and-wait hunters that ambush insects passing close by, grabbing a victim with two sets of long claws. Small prey can be captured ...

Maia squinado. It might sound like some exotic Oriental greeting, or perhaps a very itchy skin complaint, but it’s actually the Latin name of one of our most unusual animals, more common at this time ...

Scientists have discovered two new spiders with truly bizarre camouflage: not only do they look like bird poop, but they ...

Let’s just say, they don’t have the thickest of skins. Spider crabs have the dual challenge of being delicious and needing to moult, and once a year, this spells trouble. Found in the cool waters ...

The tide is changing for some unusually named sea creatures. A fishermen organization in the United Kingdom is now marketing spider crabs as Cornish King crabs in hopes that the name change will help ...

The remains of eight new species of crustaceans, including the oldest known spider crabs that lived 100 million years ago, have been uncovered in a fossil reef in northern Spain, scientists report.