Imagine a spider as big as a child's forearm that weighs as much as a puppy. That's how huge the South American Goliath birdeater — arguably the world's largest spider — can be. Entomologist ...

The Goliath birdeater is the king of spiders. Weighing up to six ounces and with a leg span of nearly a foot, this tarantula is the largest arachnid on the planet. Goliaths don’t usually eat ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." Despite its name ...

Commonly known as the Goliath birdeater due to an 18th-century engraving showing another member of the tarantula family eating a hummingbird—which gave the entire Theraphosa genus the nickname ...

Yes, many people keep various breeds of tarantulas as exotic pets, but this oversized species has menacing fangs that are a danger to most small and mid-sized prey. The Goliath Birdeater ...

It's the largest type of spider in the world, and it has one of the most terrifying names in the history of the animal kingdom: the Goliath birdeater. The Goliath birdeater (Theraphoa blondi ...

That isn't the case with South America's Goliath bird-eating spider. With a leg-span measuring nearly a foot wide and a weight exceeding a third of a pound, the tarantula is the largest spider in ...

Well, he was right about the furry part. The creature was actually a Goliath birdeater spider, LiveScience reports — the world's biggest type of spider, according to the Guinness Book of World ...

151; -- If you didn’t have arachnophobia before now, this puppy-sized spider should do the trick. Known as South American Goliath birdeater, the humongous eight-legged creepy crawly creature has ...

How large can spiders get? Here is the biggest spider in the world, as well as other record-breaking spiders. The Goliath birdeater was given its nickname as the result of an 18th century ...

The video poster misidentifies the species as a Goliath birdeater spider. This is the largest spider in the world by mass, weighing up to 6oz and having a leg span of almost 12 inches. Other ...

A moment later, he realized he was looking not at a brown, furry mammal, but an enormous, puppy-size spider ... He added that the Goliath birdeater is "a very common species, not protected ...