Mexican redknees are a part of the New World category of tarantula, which have large fangs that can cause a painful bite, but ...

Tarantulas are large, hairy spiders from the family Theraphosidae. "They are one of the oldest groups of spiders around," says Cara Shillington, PhD, a biologist at Eastern Michigan University ...

Grundler notes that the tarantula was “about the size of a dinner plate,” which is enough to strike fear in the heart of just any any arachnophobe. Spotting large spiders feeding on other ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...