Cambodia's rainy season starts in June, which brings with it an increase in tarantulas, which are hunted and then sold to be cooked and eaten. The spiders are found in the countryside and up to ...

Did you know that a tarantula’s primary defense mechanism is not actually their large size or their scary bite? The actual ...

Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare. A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, ...

Tarantula and Speed Demon strike in a clip from the Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man episode, "Secret Identity Crisis." ...

Among the species was an entirely new genus of tarantulas called Cilantica, named after the Tamil word for spider. They can be identified by the unique scattered pattern of curved bristles on ...

In the ground under the tawny grasses, male California tarantulas are emerging from their underground lairs in search of mates. The large, hairy spiders slowly crawl along the ground seeking the ...