After noticing tiny spiders all over his bedroom, Gil looked under his bed. There, guarding its brood, was one of the world’s most venomous spiders. Before safely relocating it outdoors, he ...

This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Spiders in Focus Jumping spiders are ornamental and agile, widespread and harmless. Yet like many spiders ...

He thought the striking markings up to the spider’s head region resembled the make-up worn by the singer during the 1970s. Lam’s journey into the world of photography began during his undergraduate ...