A British man is still suffering discomfort nearly a year after his pet tarantula shot some of its sharp hairs into his eye, prompting doctors to warn pet owners about the dangers of handling the ...

Students in Dr. June Olds' exotic pet medicine class were temporary tarantula caretakers last month. The Iowa State Vet Med students were responsible for naming their tarantula, feeding them little ...

Now is the perfect time to consider the tarantula - and not just because it fits in with the Halloween motif. It's tarantula mating season, and the males are out crawling around various East Bay parks ...

Catelyn Topping was only 15 years when she fell in love. With tarantulas. It wasn't love at first sight, she says. It took an entire week. "I started volunteering at Chattanooga Zoo and there was one ...

From the archive: This story first appeared in The Desert Sun in 2016. It was huge, plodding and menacing to my neighbors. I write of a large tarantula that walked in front of my sliding door last ...