Did you know that there are over 3,000 different species of centipedes, and scientists believe that there could be 5,000+ ...

Thankfully, we had the good boat, the one with the “roof”—an awning where giant Amazonian spiders and iridescent beetles were hanging out. I was on patrol with rangers from Madidi National ...

It is premature to inject politics into the sudden, aggressive infestation of roving gangs of giant, 6-foot-tall spiders, the likes of which have never been witnessed by mankind in all of existence.

It's a great time of year to meet with the giant Amazonian leech. Its kind is just emerging from the bottom muck, where they dug themselves in to wait out the three-month dry season. They'll be ...

They eat grasshoppers, snails, spiders, and earthworms. As its name suggests, the Amazonion giant centipede (Scolopendra viridicornis) is most commonly found in the Amazon rainforest, especially ...