We all know what a tarantula looks like, but where do they live? Here we set out the countries and habitats they are found in ...

A town in southeastern Colorado hosts a yearly tarantula festival, attracting both tourists and scientists studying tarantula ...

A wave of tarantula sightings might occur in the next few months across portions of the U.S. as mating season begins. The secretive spiders are rarely seen – except during mating season. The hairy ...

If you’re hiking or camping in the arid Southwest and West in the next few months, get ready for what could be the experience – or fright – of a lifetime. Across the United States, in California, ...

It’s tarantula mating season in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico. The big spiders crawl across roads and between scrubby vegetation on the plains. You’ll often see dozens of the eight-legged ...

Arizona is home to over a dozen tarantula species. These primarily nocturnal creatures are most active during the late summer and early fall mating season. Although venomous, Arizona tarantulas are ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope ...

In the world of horrifyingly painful stinging creatures, the tarantula hawk ranks so high that the actual scientific advice if you're stung is to lie down and scream. Dandy if you're a human, but if ...

A woman was left gobsmacked when something unexpected happened after her husband's pet tarantula went missing for a whole ...