Although an animal’s common name often helps describe its characteristics and/or relationship to other animals, common names can be misleading. One arthropod reported from the periphery of the Rolling ...

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 ...

LANDER - You say camel spider, I say wind scorpion - let's call the whole thing off. It turns out camel spiders are native to the American West - we just don't call them camel spiders. And they don't ...

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 was surprised to find what appeared to be a mix between a spider and a scorpion at his home in Queen Creek, Arizona. Thomas Acosta came face to face with the creature, known as the camel spider, ...