Texas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. I have a confession to make.

As the onset of summer nears, so too do warmer temperatures and mating season for many of the nearly 900 spider species in ...

Wolf spiders are straight out of a horror movie with their hairy bodies and long spiny legs. The arachnids are common ...

Are they rabid? Rabid wolf spiders are known scientifically as Rabidosa rabida. However, some people also refer to them as the wandering spider and sometimes as the Texas wolf spider or texas ...

A new study shows that tarantula wolf spiders (Lycosa tarantula) use their posterior lateral eyes and anterior lateral eyes (they have a total of four pairs of eyes) to establish the distance they ...

Texas DSHS says they’re often found in “woodpiles, boxes, outdoor toilets, meter boxes, under eaves and other undisturbed areas.” Wolf spiders are commonly found in backyards and other types ...