A British man’s wedding anniversary spun out of control when a Peruvian wolf spider bit him and laid eggs in his toe — with a baby hatching inside and “eating its way out.” ...

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 ...

A woman who owns more than 100 arachnids broke open a tarantula egg sac, filled with hundreds of tiny spiderlings.. Rachel Marie, who posts under the name Tarantula Creep Show, has 111 tarantulas ...

An incredible video captured the moment a female tarantula releasing an egg sac on a bed of webbings has been released. The egg sac is believed to have more than 1,700 offspring.

Once aboard a female spider, the larva takes blood meals while waiting for her to lay eggs. A wolf spider spins an egg sac of silk to carry its eggs and the larva ducks into the egg sac, which is then ...

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.

In others, spiders eat frogs. But sometimes there’s just the right balance and they can co-exist. For strange animal pairings, it doesn't get much weirder than that of humming frogs and tarantulas.