Tarantulas are hairy so that the army ants cleaning their homes don't eat them alive, a new study suggests.The study, published Aug. 6 in the Journal of Natural History, proposes several new ideas ...

The Western Narrow-mouthed Toad is perfectly adapted to eat one thing- ants. And, coincidentally, ants are actually the number one enemy of tarantulas, as they love to eat tarantula eggs.

Female tarantulas can lay anywhere from 75 to 1,000 eggs at a time. ... The largest tarantula in the world is the Goliath bird-eating spider (Theraphosa blondi), which lives in South America.