The new species is a kind of trapdoor spider, a spider known for creating borrows underground with hinged doors.

While trapdoor spiders can come in all kinds of different sizes, like the massive and nightmarish Euoplos dignitas, or the much smaller brush-footed trapdoor spider, like those found in Australia. Now ...

A rare trapdoor spider, Aptostichus ramirezae, discovered in Iran, features a tail-like appendage, a trait thought extinct ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of trapdoor spider lurking in California's ...

A new species of spider was discovered in Australia by a team of researchers that uncovered an incredibly persevered fossil that dates between 11 and 16 million years old. The fossil is the first ...

A newly discovered trapdoor spider from California’s sand dunes has stunned scientists. The find proves hidden species still lurk in familiar landscapes.

“I thought, ‘Oh my God! What is that thing?’ I mean they were huge,” said MaryDawn Perry, who was startled Monday when she found two spiders floating in her friend’s swimming pool near Grossmont ...

Newly published research on a new genus of California trapdoor spiders — the work of the Jason Bond laboratory, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology — calls attention to not only the ...

An elusive species of trapdoor spider has been spotted again in a small village in Portugal after a 92-year disappearance. Exquisite spider fossils from Australia offer clues to their evolution ...

Scientists found a “cryptic,” eight-eyed animal in a partially underwater nest and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Young Shih via Unsplash As night fell across Taiwan, the tide went ...