A trap door with silken hinges might sound like something out of a fairy tale, but it's actually something that comes out of some spiders — and there's a new species to add to the list.

Rare and colorful, the tarantula-like creature is a type of golden trapdoor spider belonging to the genus Euoplos, which since 2017 has been the subject of an extensive research program, according ...

Trapdoor spiders traditionally have a life span between five and 20 years. While females stay in or near their burrows, males leave once they are mature and go in search of a mate.

The Parilarilao trapdoor spider is considered “medium sized,” reaching about 0.5 inches in length, the study said. It has “eight eyes ringed with black,” claws and a brown, hairy body.

Trapdoor spiders live underground in burrows of up to 30 centimetres deep, ranging from 2cm to around 20cm wide. These are covered with a trapdoor-like lid made of soil, silk and plants.

The trapdoor spider lives in the open woodland habitats and builds burrows in the black soils in northeast Australia. "It's a big, beautiful species," said Michael Rix, ...

Many trapdoor spider species are short-range endemics, meaning they only occur in one small area. This makes them especially vulnerable to threats such as habitat destruction and degradation, ...

Claim discovery is the largest species of the genus with adult females reaching 32 mm 28-year-old Zeeshan A Mirza and Rajesh V Sanap, research associates with the National Centre for Biological ...

Trapdoor spider is the name given to around 120 species of arachnids found in warm climates in North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Unlike most other spiders they do not spin a web ...

Trapdoor spiders lay claim to being the oldest recorded living spiders in the world that we know of. Porongurup is home to two species of trapdoor spider, the brown Cataxia (above) and the black ...