A satellite image of "Spider Crater" in Western Australia.

The most comprehensive study of its kind confirms that jumping spiders go through two phases of sleep, including a REM-like state that is associated with human dreaming.

Finding a spider in a pair of shoes, a laundry basket, or in a closet is never a pleasant experience. As Australia is famous for its diverse creatures and its frightening spiders, people that live in ...

Australian jumping spiders show REM-like movements and recover after disrupted sleep, offering new clues to how sleep evolved ...

Humans and other vertebrates go through various stages of sleep, including REM (rapid eye movement) sleep characterized by ...

A new monotypic genus of Australian orb-weaving spider, Venomius, with its type species V. tomhardyi, has been described from ...

Spider Crater in Western Australia, captured by NASA, is an ancient meteorite impact structure shaped like a giant spider by ...

The largest male specimen of the world's most venomous arachnid, the Sydney funnel-web spider, has been relocated to the Australian Reptile Park. The spider will contribute to the reptile park’s ...

A team of Australian scientists led by Australian Museum (AM) and University of New South Wales (UNSW) paleontologist Dr. Matthew McCurry have formally named and described a fossil spider, ...

A trap door with silken hinges might sound like something out of a fairy tale, but it's actually something that comes out of some spiders — and there's a new species to add to the list. Researchers in ...

Australia, famously, is home to some of the most formidable wildlife on Earth, and its arachnid population is particularly legendary. From the huntsman to the orb-weaver, there are some extraordinary ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the fossilized remains of a trapdoor spider, the largest to date in the country. The fossilized spider was found near Gulgong, New South Wales, last week by a ...