A 7-year-old Texas girl, Molly, was overjoyed to receive a pink-toed tarantula for Christmas, a pet she had long wished for after losing her jumping spider.

A resident tarantula at Brookfield Zoo Chicago was called upon yet again to predict the winner of Super Bowl LX.Charlotte the ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ...

Tarantulas rely on instinct and subtle cues rather than familiarity or affection. This video documents the gradual process of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The third annual Tarantula Festival brought visitors to the state’s southeastern town of La Junta over the weekend to witness the mating season of Colorado’s brown tarantula. These two-toned creatures ...

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 ...