tarantula

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With leg spans up to 11 inches across, this tarantula can turn just about anything smaller than itself into dinner, including frogs, lizards, mice and, of course, birds.

From Scientific American

The tarantula hawk, a kind of wasp, ranked a 4 on the pain index:

From New York Times

Two bona fide animal celebrities — one a puma, the other an alligator — made the news this year, along with falcons, tarantulas, hawks, pigs, pythons and a duck.

From Los Angeles Times

Each autumn in southeast Colorado, hordes of fuzzy, fist-sized male tarantulas emerge from their burrows to scour the shortgrass prairie for mates.

From Los Angeles Times

Feed shelter animals or tarantulas, run with the dogs or hang with the butterflies — the options abound.

From Washington Post