Measuring more than 23 millimeters in body length—nearly an inch—the arachnid was five times larger than its modern relatives found in Australia. According to researchers, it is the largest ...

Canberra is dishing up some seriously magical moments this week that'll have you trading your couch for a visit to the city.

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

A team of chemists and astronomers have made a discovery in the field of astrochemistry: the identification of cyanocoronene, the largest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) ever detected in ...

Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a rare diet fueled by a common greenhouse gas.

Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in ...

Contender has held the title of the largest male great white shark ever tagged by OCEARCH in the western North Atlantic since January. It weighs a staggering 750 kilograms and is almost 4 meters long.

The Goliath bird-eating tarantula is, as its name suggests, large enough to eat a bird. Tarantulas are among the deadliest predators. The fangs hold the prey and inject venom. Their mouth is ...

Scientists discover sea spiders living off methane-eating bacteria in deep-sea seeps, revealing new species and unique symbiotic survival strategies ...

It amounts to a more than $50 million project, he said. "It's the largest single attraction we've ever built in the history of Dollywood," Owens said. "It's another Smoky Mountains story." ...

The largest of these tanks is, by far, the largest military tank ever made: the Panzer VIII Maus. The Maus, which is German for "mouse," was truly huge, weighing in at a whopping 188 tons, making ...

It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date. What makes this particular jet so exciting for astronomers is not only its size. It’s also estimated to be 1.2 billion years old.