“Are you scared?” I asked the person next to me. We were both crouched over a tarantula roughly the size of my hand, our faces inches away from its hairy legs and enormous, fanged chelicerae. “No,” he ...

The skin shed of a tarantula is lifelike, but doesn't last long Our Land of Enchantment is one of only a handful of southwestern States that can claim residency for the biggest of the spiders in North ...

From the archive: This story first appeared in The Desert Sun in 2016. It was huge, plodding and menacing to my neighbors. I write of a large tarantula that walked in front of my sliding door last ...

Several years ago, while living on the East Coast, I felt burnt out by work and, for no particular reason, decided to fly west to California to follow the route of the San Andreas fault. My plan was ...