Feb 12, 2019 by News Staff

A duo of researchers from South Africa has discovered a remarkable new species of tarantula living in central Angola. Ceratogyrus attonitifer. Image credit:...

Mar 7, 2017 by News Staff

Brazilian taxonomists have discovered and described three new species of the ‘bird-eating’ tarantula genus Avicularia from Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. Avicularia...

Jun 30, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A relatively large species of tarantula discovered in an isolated mountain range in Colombia has been named after the famed Colombian novelist and 1982...

Feb 5, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers, directed by Dr. Chris Hamilton of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History, has discovered a previously unknown species of...

Nov 3, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of scientists headed by Dr Laura Miglio from the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Brazil has described a new tarantula species from...

May 7, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists from the Universidad de La República in Uruguay have described three new species of tarantulas from northern Argentina. The newly discovered...

Feb 17, 2014 by News Staff

Using an innovative screening method, a team of scientists from Australia and the United States has discovered a peptide in the venom of the Peruvian green...

Oct 31, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Dr Rogério Bertani, a tarantula specialist with the Instituto Butantan in Sao Paulo, has reported the discovery of nine species of tree-dwelling tarantulas. Female...