It is safe to say that a tarantula is one of the last things you would hope to find underneath your tent while pitched up at a caravan park. And yet, for a woman in Far North Queensland, Australia, ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth in ...

A new and large species of spider has been found living in Queensland, Australia, and researchers say it's in need of protection. Rare and colorful, the tarantula-like creature is a type of golden ...

A new and large species of spider has been found living in Queensland, Australia, and researchers say it’s in need of protection. Rare and colorful, the tarantula-like creature is a type of golden ...

A rare and giant species of trapdoor spider was found in Queensland, Australia, with scientists saying that the arachnid is considered an endangered species. The tarantula has been named Euoplos ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A trapdoor spider, known only as “Number 16,” was first ...