Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wild tarantula crosses a trail in Orange County in late September. Due to a lack of data, it's difficult for scientists to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new species of trapdoor spider named ‘Aptostichus ramirezae,’ was found by scientists at the University of California, Davis.

Newly published research on a new genus of California trapdoor spiders — the work of the Jason Bond laboratory, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology — calls attention to not only the ...

Q: I was digging on my hillside and found a spider that was over 5 inches in diameter, including the legs. The legs were very stocky and the spider’s body was purple! I believe it was underground. Any ...

Kolhapur: A new species of trapdoor spider has been discovered in the grasslands of Kolhapur district by a joint team of ...

While trapdoor spiders can come in all kinds of different sizes, like the massive and nightmarish Euoplos dignitas, or the much smaller brush-footed trapdoor spider, like those found in Australia. Now ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the fossilized remains of a trapdoor spider, the largest to date in the country. The fossilized spider was found near Gulgong, New South Wales, last week by a ...

It's tarantula season in the golden hills of the Bay Area: that period every fall when black, hairy males of the species Aphonopelma iodiusemerge from their underground burrows in search of a ...