New Tarantulas Have the Longest Male Organs of Any Known Species

A recent taxonomical revision of the tarantula genus Monocentropus led to the discovery of a new genus with a highly unusual ...

Can Tarantulas Remember Their Way Home? Scientists Say They Might

Tarantulas may have the reasoning to recall how to navigate places they’ve already been, a new study published in Ecology and ...

Inside the Black Market Selling Tarantulas Before Science Names Them

Spiders in the Theraphosidae family, commonly known as tarantulas, are among the most traded invertebrates on the ...
The State

Four new tarantula species — with massive genitalia — discovered. Take a look

Four new species of burrowing tarantula with abnormally long genitalia have been found on the Arabian Peninsula and Horn of Africa. Zamani A, von Wirth V, Fabiánek P, Höfling J, Just P, Korba J, ...
IFLScience

How Do Tarantulas Find Their Way Home? New Study Looks At Spider Navigation In The Wild

Of the nine observations of both forest-living and ground-dwelling tarantulas in their habitats, the team found tree-living ...
Laconia Daily Sun

Tarantulas use ‘spidey sense’ to remember where to hunt

Several cases of "spatial orientation" were recorded among the spiders living in both trees and in underground burrows.