Inventing creatures can be an opportunity to let your imagination run wild, but only up to a point. Stray too far from realistic anatomy or what's physically possible and your designs won't hold up.

What do you get when you combine a killer wasp with a tarantula hunter? You get the tarantula hawk. Now, these insects are not a hybrid of a tarantula and a hawk, they are giant spider wasps known for ...

They are not typically aggressive toward humans but possess one of the most painful stings in the insect world. Female tarantula hawks paralyze tarantulas with a sting before laying an egg on the ...

Tarantulas may look like terrifying monsters, but these giant spiders hide some of the most fascinating biology in the animal kingdom. From launching clouds of irritating barbed hairs as a defensive ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

A newly discovered group of tarantulas is so bizarre that scientists had to invent a whole new genus—Satyrex—to describe them. With unusually long mating appendages and fierce, hissing defenses, these ...

A US Senate candidate was just convicted of tossing a live tarantula into a home she rented out on Airbnb — admitting she got the bizarre idea from the flick “Home Alone’’ to try to get her tenant to ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The woman at the center of 2024's "tarantula tosser" case was convicted Friday of harassment, domestic assault and disorderly conduct stemming from an incident with her Airbnb guest.

An Edina Airbnb host who tossed a tarantula toward a tenant has been found guilty on three criminal charges following a brief trial. Marisa Simonetti, 32, was convicted on charges of gross misdemeanor ...

CREATURE’s STARBOY is a wearable digital pet that reacts in real time to its environment, featuring a 400 x 400 OLED display and custom haptic “purring” engine Powered by sensors and local AI, STARBOY ...