A new tarantula species with a curious dark blue ... influence of tides,” according to Chomphuphuang. It is one of the world’s rarest tarantulas. Since the electric blue tarantula’s ...

This hypothesis is supported by findings that many burrowing New World tarantulas cover their egg sacs with urticating hairs. The tarantulas typically release these barbed hairs as a defence ...

Tarantulas have a bad rap because of their size, but this family of hairy spiders doesn't want to take over the world. Believe me, they've had plenty of time to try. The name tarantula tarantula ...

Scientists in Thailand have found a fascinating new species of tarantula living ... This spider is one of the rarest tarantulas in the world, facing extinction due to the looming threat of ...

Now, there is one more to know about as scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of tarantula and it lives in Arizona. The spider, named Aphonopelma jacobii was first seen in 2018 ...

“Tarantulas ‘own’ South America, and therein lies most of the world’s diversity of the group, so I am not at all surprised,” he says. “I am sure there will be more new species out there.

But its bright red back end gives away its discreet location. Kochiana fukushimae, or the Fukushima tarantula, is a new species recently identified in the Serra de Itabaiana National Park in ...

It turned out to be a new species “Everything about this tarantula … was mind-blowing,” David Ortiz wrote in a Nov. 15 Facebook post. “It looked large and hairy, like an arboreal (tree ...