BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- One day in late August, Tonya Smith was shocked to find a small black snake suspended in a spider's web under a deck chair at her home in  Inverness.The snake was dead ...

A black widow spider’s venom is 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake’s.

Black widows are vanishing from certain regions of the U.S. Scientists found that a competitor, the brown widow, may largely be to blame for the iconic arachnid's decline.

A Reddit user has provided the internet with nightmare fuel for days by sharing a picture of a mouse caught in the web of an enormous spider.