Tarantulas make wonderful pets, but some people have an irrational fear of them. They wrongly believe that they possess a deadly bite and that these large spiders are vicious monsters. The reality is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those living near Albuquerque might occasionally catch a glimpse of a tarantula in the Sandia Mountains or on the West Mesa. Dylan ...

Aaron Phoenix, 36, says he has a collection of more than 700 pet tarantulas, making him a real-life Spider-Man. He's developing a website, with plans to open a spider store. SWNS Arachnophile Aaron ...

Gareth Bawden got his female Chilean rosehair tarantula six months ago. At first his wife Kaylene wasn’t crazy about the idea because they have two children (and one on the way), but she came around.

Wildlife poaching, including tarantula trafficking, started booming in the 1970s, around the time the public developed an interest in keeping tarantulas as pets. By the 1990s, it had become one of the ...

Those living near Albuquerque might occasionally catch a glimpse of a tarantula in the Sandia Mountains or on the West Mesa. Dylan Mueller, on the other hand, sees tarantulas daily, as he and the ...