But to cure her fear, I decided to buy the coolest spider species in the world (Goliath Bird-Eating Tarantula). This spider is able to grow to 1 foot long, shoot poison hairs out of it's back ...

The Goliath birdeater is the king of spiders. Weighing up to six ounces ... century engraving that showed another kind of tarantula eating a hummingbird, which gave the entire Theraphosa genus ...

First, the confession: I'm an arachnophobe, spooked by the most harmless everyday spiders. Close encounters with the scarier sort — the goliath bird-eating spider in an undergraduate zoology class, ...

The United States is home to some nasty spiders, but most of them can be apprehended with an overturned cup and a sheet of paper. That isn't the case with South America's Goliath bird-eating spider.

Some tarantulas are huge, but these ancient spiders come in all sorts of sizes. Some are about the size of a quarter with their legs spread; others, like the Goliath bird-eating tarantula (which ...

Imagine a spider as big as a child's forearm that weighs as much as a puppy. That's how huge the South American Goliath birdeater — arguably the world's largest spider — can be. Entomologist ...

The largest spiders are actually tarantulas, but tarantulas come in several species. The largest kind of tarantula is the South American Goliath Bird-Eating Spider. The tree-dwelling Goliath is so ...