In this video, I help my mom confront her fear of spiders by introducing her to the Goliath Bird-Eating Tarantula, one of the largest spider species. This impressive tarantula can grow up to 1 foot in ...

The Goliath bird-eating tarantula is, as its name suggests, large enough to eat a bird. Tarantulas are among the deadliest predators. The fangs hold the prey and inject venom. Their mouth is designed ...

First, the confession: I'm an arachnophobe, spooked by the most harmless everyday spiders. Close encounters with the scarier sort — the goliath bird-eating spider in an undergraduate zoology class, ...