Richard Lewis, who used to be the "worst arachnophobe" , has opened a tarantula and reptile enclosure shop in the Shell Store. (Image: Supplied) A MAN once terrified by the sight of spiders has opened ...

Slow-moving and sleepy, sloths live high in rainforest canopies, rarely descending to the forest floor. Bright-eyed and sticky-footed, these frogs cling to leaves and hunt insects in humid rainforests ...

We know very little about the brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi), whose habitat stretches from Louisiana to Texas and Colorado. But the first question arachnid expert Cara Shillington asks is, why ...

Watch these tarantulas in action as they hunt for their next meal. Lucy Powell tells Starmer to soften on migration Richard O’Brien: My wife and I like living in isolation Police arrest 19-year-old ...

This juvenile Ecuadorian red bloom tarantula (Pamphobeteus vespertinus) has telltale red markings on its abdomen. The stunning arachnid was photographed at night in La Maná, Ecuador. Spiny-backed orb ...

Look up in the woods and you may see a familiar sight: squirrels using tree limbs like a leafy highway, crossing a patch of land without putting their paws on the ground. That's true in the Amazon ...

Visitors centers: Everglades has four: Ernest F. Coe near Miami, Guy Bradley in Flamingo, Gulf Coast in Everglades City, and Shark Valley off the Tamiami Trail highway. All are open daily; check ...

SAN DIEGO — A panel of tempered glass was apparently no match for a 10-year-old western lowland gorilla at the San Diego Zoo. It happened on Oct. 11, KFMB reported. Another gorilla was in the area and ...

Footage has emerged of a troop of gorillas still living inside the long-abandoned Bristol Zoo - three years after it shut its gates to the public. The video shows the apes pressing against the glass ...

Few city rats have left their mark on the public consciousness — and the urban landscape — like the one responsible for the famed “Chicago rat hole.” (“Pizza Rat” is a notable exception.) But the ...

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