A Goliath bird-eating spider. This is the largest spider according to the Guinness World Records. Sheri (Bellatrix on Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons This complex biological term is used ...

It is nicknamed the Goliath birdeater because a spider from another member of the tarantula family was spotted eating a hummingbird. This led to the entire Theraphosa genus being nicknamed “bird ...

Let's take a closer look at some of the biggest arachnids around the globe and learn about their behaviors and ecosystems. Well, this spider (sometimes misnamed the Goliath bird-eating spider ...

Let's take a closer look at some of the biggest arachnids around the globe and learn about their behaviors and ecosystems. Well, this spider (sometimes misnamed the Goliath bird-eating spider) is huge ...

The Goliath birdeater doesn't just it birds. It also eats small rodents, frogs and insects. Milan Zygmunt / Shutterstock ...

Some of the deadliest are the six-eyed sand spider, the button spider, and the baboon spider. Although an exact number is difficult to pin down, there are approximately 1,800 species of spiders in ...

The 10 largest spiders in the world seem straight out of science fiction, with legs from 5.5 inches to over a FOOT wide. AZ Animals is a growing team of animals experts, researchers, farmers, ...

Here’s how it works. One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest.

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...