Every fall, thousands of male tarantulas abandon their burrows and roam the American Southwest, but the word "migration" ...

The publicity posters for the 1955 cult monster movie Tarantula! displayed a giant spider rampaging across the Arizona desert ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The tarantula hawk is known to have one of the most painful ...