Camel spiders aren’t venomous and don’t really go after humans, but that have been known to chase after them (top speed 10 mph), which is pretty scary. Here's a tidbit from National Geographic: These ...

Arachnophobes, beware! The latest creature feature confection from producer Roger Corman and director Jim Wynorski will be skittering its eight legs to DVD shelves this March. Save us, Brian Krause!

It's the stuff you'd see in your nightmares, and an Arizona man came face to face with it. Its common name is the camel spider, wind scorpion or sun spider; however, it's not a spider and it's also ...

In a new study led by the laboratories of Prof. Prashant Sharma of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dr. Efrat Gavish-Regev of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a team of researchers has ...

To science they are known as “solifugae.” They can grow up to one foot in length. Stories about these seemingly mythic creatures started surfacing when U.S. soldiers encountered them in the first Gulf ...

HYDERABAD: A genomic study by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Indian Institute of Science Education ...

A man came face to face with a horrific half-spider, half-scorpion monster…and lived to tell the tale. Thomas Acosta, a builder in Queen Creek, Arizona, was inside his home when he spotted the ...

A spider wrangler of sorts, Paula Cushing has traveled to every desert in America tracking down different types of arachnids. Her most recent study -- the camel spider -- has brought her research team ...

Figuring out how to love a seemingly unlovable camel spider took Justine Quirk on a strange journey her sophomore year at Great Falls College Montana State University and earned her the nickname "The ...

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