From Pink Toes to Trapdoors: What Sets Caribbean Tarantulas Apart From Their South American Cousins

There are over 700 islands in the Caribbean Sea, formed by volcanic activity and tectonic shifts. Many diverse ecological ...

Inside the little-known cave where tarantulas grow as big as dinner plates

In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

Climbing, Burrowing, or Camouflaging: How Nearly 50 Tarantula Species Carve Out Survival in Venezuela

Venezuela is on the northern coast of South America, bordered by the Caribbean Sea. Its diverse geography includes the Andes ...
USA Today

A space tarantula? Stunning, star-forming nebula captured by NASA's James Webb Telescope

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of a "cosmic tarantula": the Tarantula Nebula. The nebula, officially called 30 Doradus, earned its spider nickname because "the region ...
Slate

Another Stunning Hubble Photo of a Vast Cloud of Gas and Dust

I don’t mean for the blog to be all Hubble all week, but c’mon. Just look at that picture! Phil Plait Phil Plait writes Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science ...
NPR

For This Tarantula-Killing Wasp, Dinner's A Meal Best Served Living

It's been wet in Texas this year — exceptionally wet, as a matter of fact. With record amounts of rain, Texas is more than a little hot, green and rife with happy insects. Take the tarantula hawk, for ...