They can be larger than your head. Some are covered with barbed hairs they can throw at your eyes to blind you. Their fangs ...

The Butterfly Pavilion, located in the northwestern Denver metro area, is finding new ways for visitors to get up close with ...

Tarantulas make their homes everywhere from dusty desert burrows to a rainforest canopy. Now, researchers have discovered a tarantula new to science that dwells entirely within the hollow stems of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The tarantula hawk is known to have one of the most painful ...

A keeper presents a giant South American bird-eating tarantula resting calmly across his open palm. He jokes about taking the ...

Watch out, arachnophobes; you’re about to be seeing a lot more tarantulas around. As the weather begins to cool and the season for spooky decorations approaches, brown tarantula mating season is also ...

It's been wet in Texas this year — exceptionally wet, as a matter of fact. With record amounts of rain, Texas is more than a little hot, green and rife with happy insects. Take the tarantula hawk, for ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A previously unknown type of tarantula ...

Scientists have made a grisly discovery: the first recorded instance of a tarantula eating a snake in the wild. Leandro Malta Borges, a graduate student at Brazil’s Federal University of Santa Maria, ...