Late summer and early fall is when male tarantulas begin the eons-old search for a mate, and finding a furry fellow ...

Last year, researchers discovered a new tarantula species in Thailand with a unique coloration. Parts of its legs, back, and ...

The arrangement and alignment of these nanocrystals create a structural color that is highly iridescent and can change when viewed from different angles. The blue coloration is not only present on the ...

A tarantula seen by park employees in Death Valley on the day of the accident. A foreign tourist traveling in California's Death Valley National Park has been injured in an accident caused by an ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. — Finding a mate is risky business this time of the year for the Colorado brown tarantulas that populate southeastern Colorado. In the late summer, thousands of male tarantulas ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Tarantulas are becoming more visible in Utah just in time for the Halloween season, but for wildlife experts, this time of year is anything but scary. Utah has four ...

Spider Lovers Scurry to Colorado Town in Search of Mating Tarantulas and Community LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) — Love is in the air on the Colorado plains — the kind that makes your heart beat a bit ...

It's tarantula mating season, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows in search of a mate, and hundreds of arachnophiles flock to the small farming town of La Junta to watch them emerge in ...

Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare. A fear of insects - entomophobia - is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, ...

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 ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. (KXRM) — The tarantula mating season has arrived in the Comanche National Grassland, home to Colorado brown tarantulas. La Junta’s third annual Tarantula Fest creeps up on ...