From the archive: This story first appeared in The Desert Sun in 2016. It was huge, plodding and menacing to my neighbors. I write of a large tarantula that walked in front of my sliding door last ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Scientists using tarantulas to unpick human fear have found that the brain responds differently to threats based on proximity, direction and how scary people expect something ...

Four new species of tarantulas have been discovered in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. But these aren’t just any tarantulas. “Based on both morphological and molecular data, they are so ...

Students in Dr. June Olds' exotic pet medicine class were temporary tarantula caretakers last month. The Iowa State Vet Med students were responsible for naming their tarantula, feeding them little ...

A new species of tarantula, described as being the size of a human face, has been discovered in northern Sri Lanka. The spider, boasting legs which span 8 inches (20cm), has been named Poecilotheria ...

If you suffer from arachnophobia, this is the time of year when you're most likely to run into one of your worst nightmares: a tarantula. It's mating season for most of the 29 species of tarantulas in ...

Spinning silk comes second-nature to tarantulas, with uses ranging from protecting their eggs to lining and concealing their nests. Now scientists have discovered another function for silk, used by a ...

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 ...

The tarantula is Rafael Correa, the 1998 BJJ Mundials world champion, a four-times Brazilian national title holder and now an instructor at the Evolve Mixed Martial Arts Academy in Singapore. His ...

Tarantulas are looking for love in southeastern Colorado. The city of La Junta capitalizes on the spiders' annual season of romance by hosting a tarantula festival. Watch out, people. Tarantulas are ...