Arachnids

Around 1.5 million scorpion stings occur worldwide each year, resulting in about 2,600 deaths.

After being bitten, the boy captured the spider in a glass and went home. Around three hours after, he began to feel bad but soon recovered with anti-venom.

The previously unknown creature does not spin webs like many other spiders but instead actively stalks its prey among the vegetation of the rainforest.

The scorpion has been preserved almost intact, complete with eyes, legs and stinging tail.

The researchers found that males that had lost one of their legs during development were more likely to become gamma males, at the bottom of the male hierarchy.

The bizarre mating behavior increases the chances of reproductive success for male spider mites in an intensely competitive mating environment.

Scott Walter, a dermatologist, showed the internet a close-up of one of the microscopic Demodex mites living on his own face.

The spider's unusual behavior makes it much less appealing to some predators, allowing them to hide in plain sight.

"I leapt out of bed in a rather startled state," Geoff Barnes told Newsweek.

Scientists have found that female spiders that usually eat males after sex choose to pretend to be dead for those they want to mate with the most.

"You could not get a deadlier spider in your house," said spider hunter Scott Johnson.

Kathryn Rivers told Newsweek she "came out in goosebumps and felt sick" when she spotted the 6 inch-long arachnid.

Researchers found that spiders deep inside caves had nearly entirely lost their eyes, while spiders living at the cave entrances were only partially blind.

The footage of the alarmingly large spider crawling along could leave a few suffering from sleepless nights.

"I wondered if I could see them on my own eyelashes, so I plucked a few out and looked at the roots," @gud_morning_dave, who posted the video, told Newsweek.

"I'm not usually squeamish around bugs, but I straight up could not look at this trap," said the scarred Redditor.

There are over 50,000 species of spider – venomous, dangerous, and harmless – spread all over the world.

"Burn the house down. Just burn it!" suggested one viewer of the now-viral image.

A terrified vacationer got the fright of her life when she found a scorpion and its 17 babies in her suitcase after she returned home.

"The picture was horrific enough, but the story just pushes it up so many notches that I'm shaking," a Redditor revealed.

"Low-key it's adorable in a horrible way," a viewer opined.

It is not clear what species of spider was caught lurking on the Australian man's doorbell, but what ever it was, it was big.

One woman named Amy Shea was left with Alpha-gal Syndrome, an increasingly common life-threatening condition after the bite of a Lone Star Tick.

Western banded geckos are normally mild-mannered but researchers found that all changes when they encounter scorpions.

New South Wales resident Natasha Thomson opened the package to find the incredibly venomous spider lurking on the stem.

"Now, we have about 45,000 spider species that we know of, but it's likely there are closer to 90,000 species out there," said PhD candidate Anna Holmquist.

"I do not think that the existence of synchronization in the approach to a prey has been described in any other animal," Raphael Jenson told Newsweek.

Joro spiders seem capable of surviving at lower temperatures found further north.

One viewer said it was like something out of a "literal monster movie."

"He was shut inside a plastic tub so we believe he had been abandoned in the carriage," an animal official said.