A rare close-up video is giving viewers a glimpse of one of the planet's most dazzling spiders. The footage, shared in a Reddit post on r/spiders, shows a courting pair of Brazilian Jewel tarantulas, ...

As tarantula mating season is winding down around La Junta, Halloween season is ramping up. KRCC’s Shanna Lewis spoke with arachnologist Paula Cushing of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science ...

An eight-legged phenomenon is returning soon to Colorado. Visit La Junta calls it the annual "tarantula trek" and "a mating expedition" — the time of year when furry bachelors roam the state's ...

For a male tarantula, mating is less an act of love and more a dance with death–especially if the female’s deadly fangs succeed in grabbing him, injecting him with venom, and liquifying his insides.

Hollywood’s go-to spiders are not as formidable to humans as you might think. Learn the truth about tarantula characteristics, behaviors, and more. Think of a typical creepy crawler, and you’ll ...