Most exposures to black widow spider venom are accidental, but in a rare medical case, the exposure was intentional.

Fortunately, fatalities are fairly rare; the spiders are nonaggressive and bite only in self-defense, such as when someone accidentally sits on them. The animals most at risk from the black widow' ...

Film star Billy Baldwin has made a bitter attack on Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger, calling her 'a nutcase and a black widow spider'. The Backdraft star leapt to the defence of his brother ...

A heroin user deliberately injected herself with a ground-up black widow spider in an attempt to get high. The 37-year-old woman from California, went to hospital in pain and told doctors that she ...

A mainstream superhero movie from the director of Revenge and Substance might be hard to picture, but it's now come to light ...

In Marvel Studios’ action-packed spy thriller “Black Widow,” Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.