This is a clip from BBC Earth and my main man knight Sir David Attenborough highlighting the web-slinging capabilities of Darwin’s bark spider. The spider is capable of blasting a continuous fan of webbing that catches the wind like a sail and can cross a body of water up to
Chef Amaury Guichon (previously) is back at it, this time crafting a giant spider entirely out of edible chocolate, just in time for Halloween. Yum! I don’t know about you, but I’d tear off one of those legs and gnaw on it like a knight with a turkey leg at
This is a short clip of a jumping spider approaching a house fly, determining which way it will take off (SPOILER: forwards), then grabbing it out of the air as soon as it does. Impressive. Of course the right way to take off would have been as soon as it
Just when you thought you were safe from spiders underwater, you were wrong. This is a video from The Smithsonian highlighting the appropriately named scuba spider, which has evolved to live its life entirely underwater. The spiders only venture to the surface to collect air bubbles, which they collect around
WARNING: SPIDER. This is a timelapse video of a huntsman spider molting. It’s probably not for the squeamish, and DEFINITELY not for the arachnophobic. Did you know huntsman spiders are called huntsman spiders because they hunt man? That has to be true, I’m not even going to bother looking it
This is a video of Aries the rescue cat, who, due to malformed joints in his back legs, appears to walk like a spider. I don’t know about you, but that’s one spider I’d gladly welcome into my home. Aries appears to be completely aware of his disability. In fact,
In everything is bigger in Texas news, this is a video from San Antonio of a large Texas brown tarantula that a homeowner spotted wandering the backyard all the way from the home’s back door. Well how about that! Say, isn’t San Antonio where the Alamo is? “Sure is.” I
Note: Watch your volume, man reacting to giant spider in car. This is a dashcam video from (where else?) Australia of a giant huntsman spider making an appearance while a driver desperately tries to maintain his composure at 96km/h (~60MPH) and not crash into anything. Kudos to him too, because