Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Long before modern predators stalked Madagascar’s forests, ...

One of the freakiest parts of getting bitten by a tick is the insect arachnid’s incredible tenacity: If one successfully pierces your skin and you don’t pull it off, it can hang on for days at a time, ...

"Yes, they are every bit as monstrous, scary and potentially dangerous as you were afraid they might be. Better to stay safe inside, binging on Netflix with a fat bowl of Cheetos and a 2-liter bottle ...

Eriauchenius milajaneae is one of the 18 new species of pelican spiders from Madagascar described by the scientists. This species was named after Wood’s daughter, and is known only from one remote ...

When a tick bites, it does more than just stick you with the pointy end. Here’s what happens, in far more detail than you ever cared to know. You can thank Dania Richter from the Charité University ...

On first glance, Mecysmaucheniidae spiders, which live exclusively in New Zealand and southern regions of South America, do not look like much to the naked eye. Because they are minute spiders that ...

Once upon a time, 165 million years ago, there lived a spider who looked like a pelican. About the size of a grain of rice and just as quiet, the pelican spider tiptoed under foliage in the leafy ...

A spiky, armor-plated "walking tank" with bulging eyes, a shield on its butt and a head like a Swiss army knife scuttled along the seafloor more than 500 million years ago, snapping up prey with a ...

The brain of a sea creature that lived over 500 million years ago was organised like that of a spider – suggesting that arachnids may have not evolved on land as previously thought. Mollisonia lived ...