Photos of a giant huntsman spider that was rescued ... Poor spiders are so misunderstood!” The spider was discovered last October in an old farmhouse. “The kids came running out of the house ...

That’s because this particular giant trapdoor spider fossil is estimated to be around 11 to 16 million years old. A trapdoor spider watches from its hatch in Australia’s Springbrook National Park.

Meet Paleotoca diminas, a spider ... means “old house,” a nod to the peculiar variety of cave that the spiders call home — a paleoburrow. Long gouges in the cave walls indicate a giant ...