Last time in sinister evolutionary leaps: catfish eating pigeons. This time, it's two different spider species working together for mysterious purposes.

Fear makes us act irrationally. That's kind of its "thing."

A woman who arrived at China's Changsha Central Hospital with an itchy ear received the worst diagnosis imaginable: A small spider had apparently crawled into her ear canal while she slept, and had been dwelling inside her for the past five days.

Smog-laden gang territory California has something to look forward to before its collapse into the murky depths of the sea: a thin, furry blanket of brown widow spiders.

For nearly a month now, the residents of Sadiya, a small Indian town in the North-eastern state of Assam, have been living in fear of an unknown species of spider that has descended on the area without notice.

Tumbleweed comeback! Aspirin cancer! Goosebump fear! Star molecules! Cowardly dragonflies! Fish labeling! Python organs! Spider foreplay! And outer space's most popular costumes! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch science—with bravado!

A five-inch Brazilian Wandering Spider—the most venomous spider in the world, which "can also cause priapism in humans"—stowed away in a box of bananas and leaped out in a German grocery store, running through the aisles and causing pandemonium on Friday.

For all of you dying to know how those hairy little tarantulas keep themselves clean look no further, because all your questions will be answered here. Unfortunately, the jazzy background music doesn't make it any less icky.

Space smell! Science selling secrets! Copper popularity! Alcoholism genes! Pregnant running! Infant sleeping! Bullies exposed! Dinosaur footprints explained! And fat black widows! It's your Tuesday Science Watch, where we watch science—successfully!

A German tarantula smuggler, Sven Koppler, was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles after a months-long sting dubbed "Operation Spiderman," in which Koppler allegedly shipped hundreds of live and rare tarantulas wrapped in straws to buyers in the U.S.

Yesterday was Veteran's Day. So it was more than a little surprising that the joke for the day's Garfield strip was about an "annual day of remembrance" called "National Stupid Day." Does Garfield support the troops?!

Scientists have concluded that male wasp spiders, who only get laid once or twice during their short lives, prefer to do it with virgins. Is that really so much to ask for, since they're usually eaten by their partners? [LiveScience]

In this clip we are shown how spiders are affected by various drugs. California better watch out before it's doing nothing but building hammocks and resorting to being someone's b*tch during the Winter months for warmth! Watch inside.

Today we told you a terrible, horrifying story about snakes in the toilet. This prompted some of you commenters to share your own creepy crawly stories. We're never going outside or to the bathroom again.

A pair of Chilean Rose tarantulas were found separately in backyards in northern Britain recently, and people are getting nervous. So what's the big deal about a couple of furry spiders? They spit hairs into people's eyes and blind them.

Artist Louise Bourgeois died Monday in Manhattan following a heart attack. Her awesome, creepy sculptures—including this spider, Maman, outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain—shot her to fame in her 70s. [LAT; pic via Topyti's Flickr]