Their population was revived over a 15-year periodTen years ago, thousands of rare spiders the size of rats were ...

Rare spiders have been spotted in County Durham - as we dig out images of sightings from the archives. Over the years, there ...

Experts at Chester Zoo have said spiders the size of a human hand have had a record breeding year in the UK, with thousands ...

The British Arachnological Society, a charity dedicated exclusively to spiders and their relatives, conducted research at ...

A critically endangered spider species, unique to Clumber Park, is to be safeguarded for the future thanks to a conservation ...

An incredibly rare spider species was thought to be possibly extinct before a researcher discovered several of them in Britain. The spiders are one of the largest species in Britain, and had been ...

The spiders were hand-fed with tweezers in the zoo’s breeding facility until they were large enough to be released into the wild,” The Guardian reported. In its news release, the Chester Zoo said the ...

In a Facebook post, the Chester Zoo marked the release of thousands of giant fen raft spiders, which were bred at the zoo. The spiders are also known as great raft spiders. They are not harmful to ...

A rare plant that grows in only two places in the world has been discovered flowering in abundance at a secret Aussie ...