Tarantulas are fuzzy, active in the dark and troublingly large — with some South American species tip-tapping around on leg spans bigger than the hands of the most gargantuan professional basketball ...

There are some wildly colored animals in nature, and tarantulas are no exception. Researchers wondered why some types of these big hairy spiders that tend to be nocturnal hunters sport vibrant blue ...

The large arachnids have long been thought to be colorblind, but new evidence suggests they can perceive each others’ brilliant coloring. By Joshua Sokol Tarantulas are fuzzy, active in the dark and ...