From the claws, researchers estimated that its body was roughly 8 feet (2.5 m) long, making it not only the largest potential arachnid, but the largest-ever member of the entire group that ...

Image by Andreas Kay/ Flickr / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A bizarre arachnid that has a dog-like head has been snapped in a series of photographs that shows just how wild and wonderful our natural world is.

The Joro spider, a giant venomous flying arachnid, is coming to the New York area by the end of the year affecting its residents and local ecosystem.

It’s very, very striking,” Dr. Jason Dunlop, a curator of arachnids and myriapods at Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde and the study’s coauthor, told CNN on Friday.