A 37-year-old woman from California became ill after grinding up a black widow spider and then intentionally injecting herself with it in a bid to get high from its venom ...

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

Parvati Shallow speaks about her memoir, Deal or No Deal Island, being the Black Widow on Survivor and how she found herself ...

few things compare to how she helped establish Survivor's first successful all-women alliance, "The Black Widow Brigade." It was a turning point in the series that altered how its women ...

The television show “America’s Most Wanted” featured it repeatedly, dubbing Margaret Rudin a “black widow.” Margaret Rudin’s attorneys wrote in Thursday’s lawsuit that there was ...

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.

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The animals most at risk from the black widow's bite are insects—and male black widow spiders. Females sometimes kill and eat their counterparts after mating in a macabre behavior that gave the ...

"I think the Black Widow has served me very well ... all of the ways I was trying to fit into society's expectations of me as a woman, as a girl, as a wife, as a mother," she says.