Why did the tarantula cross the road? To find a mate, of course! Here's where you may find them in the U.S. from August to October.

A horde of baseball-sized tarantulas may soon start roaming across several Southern states. These hairy spiders, known as Texas brown tarantulas or Aphonopelma hentzi, are about to enter their ...

Look out, here comes the spider van. A tarantula crossing the road in Death Valley, California is being blamed for causing a massive traffic accident that sent a motorcyclist to the hospital.

Arizona biologist Andrew Wesley Legan, 30, sent shudders across social media after showcasing the scary, paralyzing effects of a spider wasp's sting — which can immobilize its victims for months ...

A tarantula crossing the road in California's Death Valley National Park caused an accident between international travelers after one of the visitors braked suddenly to avoid hitting the spider ...

A tarantula seen at Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park in Laguna Beach. In Death Valley National Park, desert tarantulas, one of multiple species in California, are venturing out for mating ...

Mating season for tarantulas is right around the corner. The giant spiders are set to emerge in Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico looking for a mate.

Tarantula hawks are not aggressive toward humans. We talked to Grey Gustafson, an assistant professor from the Department of Biological Sciences and curator of the arthropod collection at Northern ...

Of the 900 known tarantula species, only about four percent have any blue coloring, says Sarah J. Kariko, an arachnologist at Harvard University. (Learn why science still can’t explain blue ...

A horde of baseball-sized tarantulas may soon start roaming across several Southern states. These hairy spiders, known as Texas brown tarantulas or Aphonopelma hentzi, are about to enter their ...