Tarantulas belong to the spider family Theraphosidae. According to the World Spider Catalog, there are 1,189 recognized tarantula species in 186 genera. Tarantulas can be found throughout the world, ...

There are nearly 90 unique tarantula species in Peru, ranging from nine-inch giants to tarantulas named after Star Wars ...

Colombia is located in northwestern South America, with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The Andes ...

Arboreal taranulas in the Avicularia, Amazonias, Psalmopoeus, and Tapinauchenius genera rely on the Andes mountain forests in the northwest or the Amazon rainforests in the south. There are nearly 50 ...

Four new species of burrowing tarantula with abnormally long genitalia have been found on the Arabian Peninsula and Horn of Africa. Zamani A, von Wirth V, Fabiánek P, Höfling J, Just P, Korba J, ...

On a small island in the Philippines, as day turned to night, researchers scanned the forests looking for signs of large, fanged, hairy insects. The team, peering into mountainside crevices, deep ...