To gasps of delight, our guide Nestor Toussaint points out the St Lucia parrot, the island’s vibrant, vocal national bird and one of the rare and endangered species we are searching for on this ...

Nature is an endless theatre of wonders, where every performance showcases the majestic, the bizarre, and the awe-inspiring. Within this dramatic display, some animals have evolved extraordinary ...

This week’s featured creature is the reigning queen of spider wasps. The tarantula hawk is perhaps the largest wasp in the world and turns tarantulas into zombies. Well, zombies may be an exaggeration ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Tarantula mating season runs from about July to November, skewing toward October in California. Female tarantulas ...

The sun sets as a male tarantula successfully crosses U.S. 350 outside La Junta in September 2021 in search of a female mate. Now through the early part of October is a good time to spot tarantulas in ...

On a cold September morning in 2019, as the sun was rising over the South San Juan Mountains, I was sitting outside on my patio, writes Deirdre Rosenberg. I was attempting to stave off an oncoming ...

“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” For a moment I didn’t pay much attention to the large insect buzzing around me. It was one of those gentle spring days and ...

One of the most eye-catching insects commonly found in the Tehachapi Mountains is a giant blue-black wasp with orange wings known as a Tarantula Hawk. You can often see these beautifully iridescent, ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught this stunning image of the Tarantula nebula, the largest and brightest stellar factory in the Large Magellanic Cloud — a dwarf galaxy orbiting our own. The ...

COOL. IT’S TERRIFYING. A TARANTULA INVASION IS COMING TO NEW MEXICO AND SURROUNDING STATES THIS FALL. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YOUNG ADULT MALE TARANTULAS WILL CRAWL OUT OF THEIR HIDING SPOTS IN SEARCH OF ...

Watching fights between creatures in the wild can be an interesting insight into how they attack opponents and defend themselves. It says a lot about their evolution and how they have developed into ...