A friend got mad the other day because on a recent list of mine (52 animals that would make fantastic sports mascots) I didn't include camel spiders. In fairness, they do have a good name that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent Internet postings about the photo above of “camel spiders.” It reportedly was taken by a soldier stationed in Iraq. “A colleague sent me this photo of a mysterious desert insect, claiming that ...

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 ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Sun spiders, also known as camel spiders, aren’t actually spiders at all. They have a fearsome reputation and will prey on a variety of insects, ranging from wasps to silverfish. Although sun spiders ...