The new temporary attraction with live tarantulas and lots of facts hopes to make you more curious than apprehensive.

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

In the often misunderstood world of arachnids, the biggest spider in the world stands out among its giant kin. Enormous, eight-legged creatures — ranging from the Goliath birdeater to the Colombian ...

the biggest spider in the world stands out among its giant kin. Enormous, eight-legged creatures — ranging from the Goliath birdeater to the Colombian lesserblack tarantula — showcase an ...

Most people find spiders terrifying no matter their size. The Goliath Birdeater, the biggest spider in the world, will most definitely give anyone the creeps. Image by Krysztof Niewolny via unsplash ...

These spiders were brought to the Australian Reptile ... the 28-centimeter, the goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blonde). Its venom, more potent than that of its Sydney and Southern cousins, makes ...

The Goliath birdeater doesn't just it birds. It also eats small rodents, frogs and insects. Milan Zygmunt / Shutterstock ...

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...