A giant tarantula has been filmed dragging a young opossum away to its death in what is thought to be the first ever documentation of a spider preying on these small marsupials. In footage released by ...

The dark jungle is full of terrors. As it should be, because chaos reigns in the wild, and spotting the peculiar or unexpected is the norm. "We're always seeing crazy things," University of Michigan ...

A ‘CREEPY’ dead Tarantula infected with a ‘zombie fungus’ has been captured on video by a researcher working in the Peruvian Amazon. The fungus is called Cordyceps, which – if you think that sounds ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. "We ...

It was pitch-black and quiet, aside from the musical chorus from creatures deep inside the Amazon jungle in southeastern Peru. An enormous tarantula — about as big as a dinner plate — rustled across ...