The natural habitat of the Gooty sapphire tarantula is the deciduous forests ... tarantula aligns with that of many tree-dwelling or arboreal spiders. In the wild, it inhabits holes within tall ...

It turned out to be a new species “Everything about this tarantula … was mind-blowing,” David Ortiz wrote in a Nov. 15 Facebook post. “It looked large and hairy, like an arboreal (tree ...