The rare Gooty sapphire tarantula is both stunning and dangerous, but habitat loss now threatens its survival.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — They’re creepy, crawly and coming to a state near you. Tarantula mating season has begun, with high levels of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

When two of nature's most feared arachnids go head-to-head, it is far from a simple battle. The tarantula and the scorpion ...

Four newly discovered tarantula species were just dubbed the "Genital King," and for tarantulas, size really does matter. The species are all under the genus Satyrex, which loosely translates to the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of a "cosmic tarantula": the Tarantula Nebula. The nebula, officially called 30 Doradus, earned its spider nickname because "the region ...

I was sitting on my deck here in Saratoga recently and noticed a beautiful, albeit very large, bug walking near me. I wasn’t sure what it was, but after doing a little research, O am certainly glad ...

Bright colors in the animal kingdom usually mean danger. And the bright colors of the tarantula hawk definitely mean danger, not only because of the powerful sting that it possesses, but danger to its ...

It's been wet in Texas this year — exceptionally wet, as a matter of fact. With record amounts of rain, Texas is more than a little hot, green and rife with happy insects. Take the tarantula hawk, for ...