According to the World Spider Catalog, there are 1,189 recognized tarantula species in 186 genera. Tarantulas can be found ...

Scorpion vs. Tarantula could be described as too rock ’n’ roll for punks and too punk for metalheads. Lead singer L. Hotshot ...

The Oceania region is home to over 20 tarantula species, most of which belong to the Selenocosmiinae sub-family of tarantulas ...

The series, which premieres Jan. 13, sends the actor to all seven continents to take on extreme challenges in the name of ...

Chris Hamilton and Brent Hendrixson met someone unexpected in the mountains of Southeastern Arizona: a leggy redhead with a taste for cold weather. The two researchers discovered a new species of ...

Guadalupe Mountains National Park is one of the most unspoiled natural refuges in Texas, with a surprising variety of ...

The brown tarantula is about the size of an apple or orange. University of Missouri-St. Louis scientist Becky Hansis-O’Neill and her team of students have been using an app to track their locations, ...

Each year, male brown tarantula trek across Colorado to look for ladies. From mid-September to mid-October, they leave the safety of their burrows to go on journeys that will take interesting turns as ...

“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” For a moment I didn’t pay much attention to the large insect buzzing around me. It was one of those gentle spring days and ...

SALT LAKE CITY — They are hairy and the size of a baseball, and if you live in the Southwest, you may seem them roaming around. It is mating season for the tarantula, and the males are on the lookout ...

Apologies ahead of time for setting off your arachnophobia. “Hordes” of tarantulas are purportedly getting ready to emerge in certain areas of the United States relatively soon. According to USA Today ...

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 ...