Tarantulas are fuzzy, active in the dark and troublingly large — with some South American species tip-tapping around on leg spans bigger than the hands of the most gargantuan professional basketball ...

Tarantulas are nocturnal and have long been thought to be incapable to see in color A team of researchers studied the origins of tarantulas' bright coloration They say tarantulas actually have color ...

There are some wildly colored animals in nature, and tarantulas are no exception. Researchers wondered why some types of these big hairy spiders that tend to be nocturnal hunters sport vibrant blue ...

Tarantulas: big, hairy, eight-legged, terrifying nightmares to some, adorable pets to others, blue. Wait, blue? Yes. Blue. Although most of the 900 or so species of tarantulas are varying shades of ...

A brilliant-blue tarantula may give many people the heebie-jeebies, but for a group of scientists, the arachnid was the inspiration for a new hue that could transform digital screens. The new pigment ...

Inspired by the hair of blue tarantulas, researchers have made a 3-D printed structural-colored material that has a viewing angle of 160 degrees, the largest of any synthetic structural colors ...

The large arachnids have long been thought to be colorblind, but new evidence suggests they can perceive each others’ brilliant coloring. By Joshua Sokol Tarantulas are fuzzy, active in the dark and ...