London Pet Shop Owner Tries to Smuggle 1000 Spiders in Suitcase

A London-based pet shop owner was caught trying to smuggle 1,000 live spiders outside of the UK in his suitcase by Brazilian police late Wednesday, November 11. The unnamed pet shop proprietor was arrested as he...

Girls 'are genetically primed to fear spiders'

People always used to think that Arachnophobia is sort of a disease that is curable. But a new study says otherwise - well, there is a gender bias (twist) added to this. Women can be easily "hardcoded" with...

Australian Outback Town Invaded by Spiders

Bowen, Australia is inundated with an invasion of bird-eating spiders. While nobody's yet calling it an arachno-plague, pest-control companies are citing a big uptick in customer calls. Bowen is an coastal town, about 700 miles north of Brisbane.The eastern tarantula, aka...

Climate Change Can Lead to Giant Spiders

According to Danish scientists, climate change will have yet another knock-on effect... giant spiders. But wait, it gets better: giant armored spiders. The wolf spiders of northeastern Greenland, with their...

Daddy Long Legs

I' am sure we have all come across a daddy long legs spider before.Were you aware that if it wasn't for the fact that they can not pierce through our skin that they could kill us.Crazy ... Just some food for thought.

Mysterious Creatures Found in Antarctica

Um..."sea spiders the size of dinner plates"?"Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctica said Tuesday they have collected mysterious creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms in the murky depths. Australian experts taking part in an international program...

I'm Spider-Woman

I'm an arachnologist - someone who studies the science of spiders. I think spiders get a bad rep, so the movie Spider-Man is a bit of much-needed positive spider-PR. Your backyard is full of spiders, and they...

Bizarre New Deep-Sea Creatures Found Off Antarctica

"A treasure trove of more than 700 new species has been uncovered in the dark depths of oceans surrounding Antarctica, researchers report. (See a photo gallery of the finds.) Heart-shaped sea urchins, carnivorous...

Climate Change Leads To More Nasty Spiders In UK. Great.

One the eve of the release of SpiderMan 3, I thought this particular story was a fitting tribute. Granted, the spiders I'm about to mention are more likely to give you pain than superpowers, but hey, we can't all...

Spiders on Drugs? Why is this the most emailed story on the web...

Andrew Struthers from Victoria, British Columbia is filmmaker and journalist did NOT think that his little video would make such a splash on YouTube. In fact, he almost gave up posting the video because he has been shopping the movie script of Spiders on Drugs around for...

Hotdogs and spiders and lightbulbs! Oh my!

" Chad: it’s an African country, it’s a thingy that hangs from mispunched ballots, and it’s our guy who brings us the weirdest Reuters video clips every week. Chad Ruble is back at the Oddly Enough Studio in glamorous Times Square, ready to show you what...

Giant Man-Eating Spiders in Iraq!

""These Spiders run 10 mph, jump three feet and are nocturnal, so only come out at night unless they are in shade - Nice !!! When they bite, you are injected with Novocain so your skin is 'numbed' instantly. You don't even know you've been bitten when you're sleeping, so you...

Real Estate Vertical Search Test: Untangle The Spiders Web

This is a Test. Task: Complete a specific property search using the leading Real Estate Search Engine Spiders for Available Sales properties in a specific building in NYC. The results I found were a bit...

Linking Law & The Rabbit Holes Of The Web

The Internet, it seems, is a neverending series of rabbit holes called links. Some links are to home pages while others go much deeper. The architects, the linksters, are everywhere. Blogs do it. Google does it....

Next on menu for Starbucks? It's hot food

According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...

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