The inspiration for Phoenix’s peculiar pastime comes from a pet tarantula he ... largest spider is a burgundy goliath tarantula — also known as a goliath bird-eating spider — with a leg ...

Commonly known as the Goliath birdeater ... another member of the tarantula family eating a hummingbird—which gave the entire Theraphosa genus the nickname of “bird eaters”—the gargantuan ...

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 ...

"That is, the goliath bird-eating spider." Most spiders can be split into two broad groups, Hale told Live Science: araneomorphs (also known as 'true spiders', a group that includes 90% of spiders ...