Tarantulas are hair-covered beasties. But most spiders don't have such "furry" bodies. So why do tarantulas look so hairy? These hairs are more important than you might think. Tarantulas are hairy for ...

The Oceania region is home to over 20 tarantula species, most of which belong to the Selenocosmiinae sub-family of tarantulas found across Southeast Asia, Australia, and the wider Oceania region. It ...

Male tarantulas are skittering all over Mount Diablo as quickly as their eight legs will carry them, trying to mate as often as they can before starving to death, falling apart or being eaten by a ...

The tarantula is a fast-moving spider, but it's not always a coordinated one, a new study finds. As the arachnid increases its speed, it also loses some of its coordination, becoming a "little wonky," ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansans with a healthy fear of spiders may get more than they bargain for this fall as thousands of tarantulas hit the road. Autumn in Kansas brings with it the possibility of seeing ...

Highway overpasses have been successful tools to help mitigate animal-vehicle collisions, now researchers are exploring how underpasses can do the same for Colorado's smaller creatures. "We've got a ...

Aaron Phoenix, 36, says he has a collection of more than 700 pet tarantulas, making him a real-life Spider-Man. He's developing a website, with plans to open a spider store. SWNS Arachnophile Aaron ...

Catelyn Topping was only 15 years when she fell in love. With tarantulas. It wasn't love at first sight, she says. It took an entire week. "I started volunteering at Chattanooga Zoo and there was one ...

One entomologist described tarantulas as the "puppies of the spider world." Tarantulas are coming out in droves in Northern California just in time for Halloween. But the gargantuan spiders aren't ...

CLAYTON, Calif. (KGO) -- It is never too late to search for summer love and that is what the tarantulas are doing on the East Bay's Mount Diablo. Tarantulas live underground but when mating season ...