The juvenile spider sat in a glass vials, one of thousands tucked away in the archives of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest collections. To the naked eye, it didn’t look like much. Just another standard ...

Parasites have been attaching themselves to spiders for millennia. Given the large number of spiders and the wide variety of ...

At Brazil's Butantan Institute, Ricardo Bassini-Silva identified mite larvae feeding on a millimeter-scale specimen in the museum's archive.

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, came across a few-millimeter-long spider wearing something ...

Brazil is an extraordinary destination for wildlife enthusiasts, offering some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. From the lush Amazon rainforest to the idyllic islands of Fernando de ...

Currently, more than 46,000 spider species stretch their eight legs in habitats across the world, in every country and continent except Antarctica. And those are only the ones scientists have been ...