From the eleven-inch leg span of the goliath birdeater to the brilliantly colored pink-toe tarantula, these five tarantula species are something ... toed tarantula is an arboreal spider native ...

This feature is typically associated with tree-dwelling tarantulas but is unusual for ground-dwelling species like Trichopelma grande. Despite its arboreal-like appearance, the spider was found in ...

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 ...