Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? Thankfully, no. Researchers explain why and how we’d know if we were swallowing ...

So when it comes to the question itself, myth or fact, the answer is clear. Humans are not eating eight spiders per year in ...

I do not swallow eight spiders a year in my sleep, and neither does anyone else. The familiar statistic survives as a viral scare line, not as a finding from sleep labs or arachnology research. By ...

Tarantulas are hairy so that the army ants cleaning their homes don't eat them alive, a new study suggests. The study, published Aug. 6 in the Journal of Natural History, proposes several new ideas ...

If you suffer from arachnophobia, this is the time of year when you're most likely to run into one of your worst nightmares: a tarantula. It's mating season for most of the 29 species of tarantulas in ...