Every fall, thousands of male tarantulas abandon their burrows and roam the American Southwest, but the word "migration" ...

An article published in Journal of Natural History reviews the mutually beneficial ecological relationships and evolutionary adaptations of tarantulas. The study reveals that the infamous spiders are ...

It might be hard to imagine, but dropping a limb or two is routine for spiders. If molting goes wrong or a leg gets stuck, the pragmatic arachnids simply detach the limb just beyond the body joint.

Tarantulas: big, hairy, eight-legged, terrifying nightmares to some, adorable pets to others, blue. Wait, blue? Yes. Blue. Although most of the 900 or so species of tarantulas are varying shades of ...

Sexual cannibalism in spiders – the attack and consumption of males by females before or after copulation – is very widespread. A new investigation analyses the reason behind such extreme behavior, at ...

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The large arachnids have long been thought to be colorblind, but new evidence suggests they can perceive each others’ brilliant coloring. By Joshua Sokol Tarantulas are fuzzy, active in the dark and ...