A hairy spider native to Kansas once was the namesake of a professional, minor league hockey team, the "Topeka Tarantulas." That team, based in the Sunflower State's capital city, folded in 2005, a ...

It’s tarantula mating season in Colorado and spider aficionados are traveling from as far away as California to see the annual matchmaking rituals. As Colorado’s public radio news recently detailed, ...

Each year, male brown tarantula trek across Colorado to look for ladies. From mid-September to mid-October, they leave the safety of their burrows to go on journeys that will take interesting turns as ...