This is literally skin-crawling. A video of a Mexican Red Knee tarantula shedding its skin is the latest molting spider video to creep out the internet. Tarantulas have an exoskeleton that protects ...

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Paco, a redknee tarantula is native to Southwestern Mexico and is among the largest varieties of this beneficial spider. The native habitat is arid scrub land where they usually build their tunnels ...

Wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and tarantulas (Theraphosidae) are both maligned and feared throughout the world. They are venomous, ...

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A tarantula named after singer Johnny Cash is among 14 new species identified by scientists who spent a decade collecting the hairy spiders and studying nearly 3,000 of them. The spider doesn't sing, ...