This report examines tarantulas and the real risks they present during close human encounters. While often labeled harmless, tarantulas possess powerful fangs and defensive urticating hairs that can ...

Scientists have found evidence that the hairy bodies of some tarantulas keep them safe from a dangerous—but tiny—foe. Reading time 3 minutes Scientists may have solved a mystery about one of nature’s ...

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A taxonomical revision led to the discovery of a new genus of tarantulas with the longest male sexual organs of any known ...