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Texas is home to some interesting critters, and those with arachnophobia will hate to hear that tarantulas are among them. Not to diminish the fears of those who hate spiders — I'm not the biggest fan ...

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These misunderstood, wandering arachnids are often simply young males in search of love. Here's where you might see them near Stockton in fall 2025.

It might be hard to imagine, but dropping a limb or two is routine for spiders. If molting goes wrong or a leg gets stuck, the pragmatic arachnids simply detach the limb just beyond the body joint.

Researchers have documented several cases of spatial orientation in tarantulas living both in trees and in underground burrows. Spatial orientation refers to the ability of an animal to understand ...

How does a spider stretch its legs? That question is an old zoologist baffler. Spiders have no leg-stretching muscles, yet they have an unquestioned ability to unflex all eight pedal extremities. A ...

Tarantulas may have the reasoning to recall how to navigate places they've already been, a new study published in Ecology and Evolution suggests. These researchers have documented several cases of ...

A hairy spider native to Kansas once was the namesake of a professional, minor league hockey team, the "Topeka Tarantulas." That team, based in the Sunflower State's capital city, folded in 2005, a ...