Types of Spiders & Spider Facts

All spiders are predatory eight-legged creatures that have organs to spin silk at the back
ends of their bodies. They are the largest part of the Arachnid family, a group that also
includes scorpions and ticks. Spiders all have the ability to bite with venom-injecting
fangs to kill prey and nearly all of them are poisonous (even if it's just a little).
There are about 40,000 types of spiders in the world, living on every continent except
Antarctica. And they're not newbies: fossilized spiders have been found in
Carboniferous rocks dating back 318 million years.

Spider anatomy
Spiders have two body segments, the abdomen and the cephalothorax. The first, or front
part, is the cephalothorax, which is formed by the fusing of the head and thorax,
according to Jo-Anne Nina Sewlal, an arachnologist at the University of the West Indies
in Trinidad. The cephalothorax contains the eyes, mouth and legs.
The mouth has several parts. The spider's jaws, calle