A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...

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The new temporary attraction with live tarantulas and lots of facts hopes to make you more curious than apprehensive.

Arachnophobia, or the fear of spiders, is one of the most common specific phobias. Arachnophobia affects between 2.7 and 6.1 percent of the global population. That doesn't seem like a lot ...

Arachnophobia, the clinical term for a fear of spiders, is one of the world's most common phobias. In 2009, a study published in the European Journal of Oral Sciences, put the estimated proportion ...

people suffering from arachnophobia -- the fear of spiders -- are physically and/or psychologically impaired by it. "To be defined as a phobia, the fear must cause some level of impairment," says ...

In fact, the strongest evolutionary case for arachnophobia rests on the dangers not of spiders but of scorpions, the theory being that we generalized a reasonable fear of those creatures into a ...

But spiders could also have a more foreboding meaning when they appear in dreams. If you felt afraid, you may want to reflect on what you fear. Do you feel trapped? Are stuck in a web of something ...