PHOENIX — A Valley park needs help naming its newest resident. McDowell Mountain Regional Park is on the hunt for a name for a baby tarantula. A developer found the spider at a construction site and ...

Sometimes scientists discover a new species after long hours of searching. Sometimes they find a new species by accident. A team of researchers in China took a slightly different approach. The ...

Many people across the country a are reporting a creepy sight, seen falling from the sky. "I woke up this morning. Go out to the back deck, drinking a cup of coffee, and I look at the moon and the ...

You know those nightmares where you kill a spider and suddenly dozens more appear? That nightmare was real for these people. YouTube user Danny Ford wrote that he spotted the massive wolf spider ...

Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave. That's NPR's science podcast. Reporting this week, we have Rachel Carlson. Hey there. RACHEL CARLSON, BYLINE: Hey, Mary Louise. KELLY: Hey. And ...

If you suffer from arachnophobia, this is the time of year when you're most likely to run into one of your worst nightmares: a tarantula. It's mating season for most of the 29 species of tarantulas in ...