A town in southeastern Colorado hosts a yearly tarantula festival, attracting both tourists and scientists studying tarantula ...

Southern Colorado is home to tarantulas, and the epicenter of activity is near La Junta in the southeastern portion of the state. The city encourages people to come check out the “tarantula trek” ...

Four new species of tarantula have been discovered – and if they knew the name they were going to get, they might have presented themselves sooner. The males are so well-endowed that scientists ...

Four new species of tarantulas have been discovered in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. But these aren't just any tarantulas. The genus name is a combination of Satyr, a part-man, ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. — Finding a mate is risky business this time of the year for the Colorado brown tarantulas that populate ...

Scientists have had to create an entirely new spider genus after four new tarantula species were found to have such long genitalia that they couldn't fit into any pre-existing category. The team ...

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion constellation reveals about the life cycles of stars. Time now for our science ...

Eastern Michigan University biology professor Cara Shillington has "thousands of spiders" in her home and is heading to the ...