The Goliath birdeater's massive size earns it the title of the world's largest spider. The Goliath birdeater, or theraphosa blondi, if using the scientific name, is ranked the largest for its overall ...

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NORFOLK -- The pictures may creep you out, but they're fascinating to the folks at the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk. Cameras there caught one of the zoo's Goliath bird eating spiders molting. The ...

Throughout history, tales of giant spiders have gripped the human imagination — from Arachne, the half-woman, half-spider figure in Greek mythology to J'ba Fofi, the rumored monkey-size spider of the ...