A decade ago, Chester Zoo released thousands of fen raft Spiders after the species was found to be in terminal decline.

"People collect spiders a bit like people collect Pokemon – they want to 'catch 'em all'," says University of Hong Kong ...

The Chester Zoo celebrated 10 years since they released thousands of giant fen raft spiders into the United Kingdom after the ...

The global arachnid trade is threatening the world's most famous spider species. And it's primarily driven by souvenir ...

During the pandemic, researcher Daniela Rößler couldn't go out, so she started looking around her for her next research ...

Thousands of "giant spiders" which were released into the wild by a zoo are thriving in the wild and have had a record mating ...

Experts at Chester Zoo have said spiders the size of a human hand have had a record breeding year in the UK, with thousands ...

The spiders were hand-fed with tweezers in the zoo’s breeding facility until they were large enough to be released into the ...

The UK’s Chester Zoo shared a remarkable conservation milestone that might make you rethink your feelings about spiders!In a recent social media post, the zoo revealed that it is celebrating a decade ...

In order to save the species, the zoo set about rearing hundreds of baby spiders in individual test tubes as part of a ...

In 2011, the zoo reared “hundreds of baby spiders” in individual test tubes as part of a conservation breeding program with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), the news ...