Texas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. I have a confession to make.

As the onset of summer nears, so too do warmer temperatures and mating season for many of the nearly 900 spider species in Texas. Even though you’re unlikely to cross paths with many of these Lone ...

Wolf spiders are straight out of a horror movie with their hairy bodies and long spiny legs. The arachnids are common ...

This creepy spider sent one woman from Florida into a tailspin. When farm owner Jessica Street spotted a large wolf spider in her ... to South West News Service. “It really was the last thing ...

When he saw what he’d signed on for, the mockery stopped. In West Virginia, where I grew up, I once met a wolf spider so big it had an intact dogwood leaf stuck to its foot. In 1993, while I was ...

Winning images from The Nature Conservancy's 2023 Global Photo Contest include a wolf spider in a Maryland park ... an arachnologist at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad, previously ...

The ink is officially dry on the sale of the historic West ... on Texas. He met with Comanche leader Quanah Parker and Theodore Roosevelt, and in 1905 invited President Roosevelt to a wolf ...

“Please can someone ID it for me?” Users on the forum were quick to identify it as a female wolf spider, one of the few species to carry its infants in this manner for protection. “More ...

Texas arachnologist Ashley Wahlberg, known as the “Spider Lady”, said it was a wolf spider of the hogna genus – among the largest found in the US. Ashley, who teaches at Angelina College in ...

A Houston-based acquirer of oil-rich land added even more acres to its portfolio in one of the nation’s highest-producing oil basins. LandBridge acquired Wolf Bone Ranch in West Texas for $245 ...