The pink-toed tarantula is an arboreal spider native to the South ... This female of this spider species has a leg span of 4.75”, whereas the male is smaller with a leg span of 3.5”.

The Trichopelma grande boasts striking patterns and unique feather-like leg hairs, a testament to the region's biodiversity.

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 ...

Biologists have discovered a new tarantula species in Cuba that is bigger and hairier than other spiders in its genus. A new study, "A hairy giant among dwarves," published this month in the ...