The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an ...

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

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

A fact, fun or not depending on your reaction: like other nocturnal animals, some spiders have eyeshine. Tracking a flashlight around open prairie in the Comanche National Grassland just ...

Southern Colorado celebrated its annual Tarantula Fest on Saturday, Sept. 28, drawing hundreds of enthusiasts to La Junta to witness the arachnids’ fall mating ritual.

These cotton-top tamarin babies look like tiny punk-rock stars and are some of the most adorable — and smallest — primates you'll ever see!

The LA Zoo announced Thursday the arrival of two new baby chimpanzees -- the first chimpanzees born at the zoo in 11 years.

The Los Angeles Zoo announced Thursday that its chimpanzee troop has welcomed two healthy baby girls — the first chimps born at the zoo in more than a decade. The infants and their moms, Yoshi and ...

The OKC Zoo announced that a new baby giraffe was born on Tuesday, Sept. 23 at the Giraffe Barn in Expedition Africa.The new calf weighed 150 lbs and has not ...

Chimps are close genetic relatives to humans, with facial expressions, gestures, vocalizations. They live to 50 or more.

Two baby chimpanzees have been born at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first in 11 years. The first was born Aug. 20 to chimpanzees Yoshi, 35, and Pu’iwa, 26, zoo officials said in a press release. The ...

There’s a new member of the Disney’s Animal Kingdom family! Mara, one of Animal Kingdom’s Masai giraffes, recently gave birth ...