Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...

UN-SPIDER has released a new publication entitled " Mapping Disaster Resilience: GeoAI Best Practices from the UN-SPIDER Network" .

Researchers in a new study found that the world-infamous parachuting joro spiders will attack and eat each other in certain ...

Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) Annual Progress Map Researchers are still learning about the spider species. Relatively little is known about their ecological or human-related impacts.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park recorded its first joro spider sighting on Oct. 17. The spider was found in Cades Cove in Tennessee.

Park considers how to monitor spiders' spread Earlier this year, park partner Discover Life in America added the Joro spider to the Smokies Most Wanted list.

While Joro spiders might get one's heart pumping, researchers are testing how fast the spiders' hearts beat when they're stressed.

Joro Watch, a digital Joro spider monitoring and data collection program created by the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health at the University of Georgia, collects data about the ...

When it comes to the giant flying Joro spider that's now in Massachusetts, Boston.com readers are going through some things.

A palm-sized and brightly colored invasive spider that is native to East Asia was spotted in a historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts.

It’s so large, it might be mistaken for a Halloween decoration – but the web that the invasive Joro spider spotted in Boston has left outside a stately home on Beacon Hill is all too real ...