While they may look intimidating, these tarantulas are actually quite shy and prefer to avoid close contact with humans, ...

The new temporary attraction with live tarantulas and lots of facts hopes to make you more curious than apprehensive.

The best places to watch the tarantula migration in Colorado are Highways 109, 10, and 350, which are located near La Junta.

"Still blows my mind that we can fly to the moon, yet don't know all the flatmates we share our home with." Scientists ...

The secrets of the maligned and misunderstood tarantula are brought to light in the Discovery Channel's Predators of the Wild series portrait of the Giant Tarantula. The film presents an intimate ...

Kori Battalion opened her mouth wide in sheer amazement Tuesday as Uncle Henry the Nature Boy walked toward she and her classmates in the gym at Falls Elementary School. It wasn’t Henry ...

Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare. A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, ...

Enormous, eight-legged creatures — ranging from the Goliath birdeater to the Colombian lesserblack tarantula — showcase an astonishing diversity in size, habitat and behavior. While they may incite ...

Experts say Kansans don't need to be worried about the healthy population of tarantulas found in parts of the state, particularly in the southern tier of counties. The large, hairy spiders are ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and busiest star-creating areas in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

Tarantulas can be found in Palo Alto’s Foothills Park and many preserves in the region. Courtesy Jack Owicki. In the waning sunlight near the Stanford Dish and in the open fields in the hills, a ...

Later this month for Valentine’s Day, the Butterfly Pavilion invertebrate zoo is hosting its annual Romance is Wild exhibit, ...