Perhaps the most feared spider in North America, the black widow spider is famous for its potentially deadly bite. But how dangerous truly are these arachnids, and how can you identify them from a ...

Black widow bites can cause severe illness, which can be treated with horse-derived antibody sera. This method, however, is not entirely safe. To change this, researchers have generated fully human ...

Other coworkers were less disturbed by the spider story. “They’re normal,” one of our weekend photographers said, referring to the black widow’s place among other spiders on the Cape.

Scarlett Johansson could've been cast as Mother Gothel in the Tangled live-action alongside her Black Widow co-star, Florence Pugh.

A desperate dad is warning Brits to be careful around false widows as he was hospitalised after performing DIY surgery on an agonising spider bite.

Black widow is actually the common name given to several long-legged, smooth-bodied spiders found in the tropics, southern United States and southern Canada. The female of the species found in ...