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.

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 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.

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, ...

Southern trapdoor spiders are considered “large-sized,” reaching over an inch across, the study said. They have bristly bodies, claws, fangs and eight eyes arranged “in three rows. ...

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 ...

A SNEAKY spider that becomes “virtually invisible to predators” has been discovered. The critter is described as a “master architect”, and makes an unusual white hole that s… ...

Australia is also home to other massive spiders, like a mega spider found in 2021.Much like this new species of trapdoor spider, scientists were intrigued to discover that such a spider existed.