The juvenile spider sat in a glass vials, one of thousands tucked away in the archives of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest collections. To the naked eye, it didn’t look like much. Just another standard ...

Even when a wild animal does not attack, close handling can be harmful on both sides.

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, came across a few-millimeter-long spider wearing something ...

Three decades ago, Brazilian researchers began studying a curious side effect from banana spider bites: the toxin left victims with priapism, a painful and persistent erection. The scientists were ...

A British woman got more than she bargained for when she bought a bunch of bananas from a Tesco supermarket. Maria Layton was the lucky winner of a Brazilian wandering spider nest inside a banana, ...

Photograph by Lawrence Reeves, University of Florida. A team of scientists in Brazil has unveiled a groundbreaking breakthrough in the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Using the venom of the ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, came across a few-millimeter-long spider wearing something ...