A man has spoken out about being left feeling paralysed by fear as "spiders and crabs crawled all over his body." Sam ...

Airport customs officials in the capital city of Lima confiscated 320 small tarantulas, 110 centipedes and 9 bullet ants from the suspected smuggler–all delicately packed around his waist and ...

Authorities said they caught a 28-year-old South Korean national trying to smuggle 320 tarantulas, 110 centipedes and nine ...

Star trek' actor Shatner has recalled that working with the tarantulas was as horrific as the scenes seen on screen because the eight-legged beasts would shed their urticating hairs leaving him and ...

each one of the 5,000 spiders required its own individual container. Shatner - who is famous all over the world for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk in the original 1960s 'Star Trek' TV ...

Suspect arrested at Lima airport after ‘swollen stomach area reveals 300 spiders, 100 centipedes and nine stinging ants’ ...

Police in Peru have arrested a man caught trying to leave the country with 320 tarantulas, 110 centipedes and nine bullet ...

"[These] forums show that people collect spiders a bit like people collect Pokemon – they want to 'catch 'em all'," says Alice Hughes, associate professor of biology at the University of Hong Kong ...

Rare spiders have been spotted in County Durham - as we dig out images of sightings from the archives. Over the years, there have been a select few sightings of some of the rarer breeds of spiders.

They are now in the care of authorities.Tarantulas are a threatened species, Walter Silva, a wildlife specialist at SERFOR, explained in the statement.“They were all illegally extracted and are ...