Brown recluse spiders are small and quite shy, but capable of delivering deadly bites. Learn about what to do if you get ...

As a new app is launched to provide first-aid advice for venomous bites and stings, a reptile expert urges people to learn ...

Critics say the nets harm marine life and aren’t the best way to keep swimmers safe. Recent shark attacks have complicated a plan to remove some of them. By Yan Zhuang Yan Zhuang reported from Bondi ...

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Black widow spiders are a scary site and the venomous females bite when threatened. You'll need to gear up and use this humane method to safely remove them.

For over five years, a Kansas family unknowingly lived with thousands of brown recluse spiders, one of North America’s most ...

Spiders of the Loxosceles genus are already found in the Mediterranean region. The venom of these creatures is toxic and can cause tissue death or skin necrosis when bitten. In the worst-case scenario ...

A former Royal Marine has had a finger amputated, 13 years after being bitten by a black widow spider. Plymstock resident Dan Cheetham, 41, suffered the venomous bite on his right hand in 2012 while ...

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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — This U.S. military base near Hiroshima has killed more venomous spiders this year than in any year since recordkeeping began nearly two decades ago, Japanese ...

A team of international scientists has engineered an eight-nanobody cocktail that neutralizes venom from nearly all major African elapid snakes. Study: Nanobody-based recombinant antivenom for cobra, ...

Georgia is home to 47 species of snakes, of which six are venomous. But, Georgia Wildlife said in their "Venomous Snakes of Georgia" publication that only three "realistically represent a serious ...