One of the freakiest parts of getting bitten by a tick is the insect arachnid’s incredible tenacity: If one successfully pierces your skin and you don’t pull it off, it can hang on for days at a time, ...

When a tick bites, it does more than just stick you with the pointy end. Here’s what happens, in far more detail than you ever cared to know. You can thank Dania Richter from the Charité University ...

All spiders are predatory eight-legged creatures that have organs to spin silk at the back ends of their bodies. They are the largest part of the Arachnid family, a group that also includes scorpions ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Once upon a time, 165 million years ago, there lived a spider who looked like a pelican. About ...

The brain of a sea creature that lived over 500 million years ago was organised like that of a spider – suggesting that arachnids may have not evolved on land as previously thought. Mollisonia lived ...