Tarantula
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Eight-year-old shares her bedroom with more than 50 spiders
Story and video from SWNS Meet the eight-year-old conservationist who loves spiders so much that she shares her bedroom - with more than 50 of them. Hollie Greenhalgh also keeps two snakes and a scorpion as well as enclosures full of millipedes,
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Tarantula the size of a dinner plate seen eating mammal
A tarantula the size of a dinner plate was filmed eating a mammal in the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Spiders are often recorded feeding of frogs and lizards, but this is thought to be the first time one has been seen preying on an opossum. Watch
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Scientists discover new kind of tarantula with a horn on its back
A newly-discovered tarantula comes with the notable feature of having a horn on its back. Found in Angola, the new species belongs to a group known as horned baboon spiders, although not all members have the scary looking protuberance. At this
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Pranksters release tarantula on packed Tube, terrify commuters
Horrified commuters were filmed running from their seats and screaming when a tarantula was set loose on the London Underground in a cruel prank. The pranksters, who run YouTube channel Trollstation, released the giant spider to capture
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Giant tarantula crawls up passenger's leg on Air Transat flight
A passenger has spoken of the moment she was watching a film on a flight to Montreal when she felt a tarantula climb up her leg. Catherine Moreau was travelling from the Dominican Republic with Air Transat when she noticed the creature. SEE
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Londoner finds tarantula in supermarket bananas
A Lidl shopper from Sydenham, south-east London, said he was shocked after discovering a tarantula in a bunch of bananas he picked up in store. He shook the spider back into the banana box, and after a ten-minute search, staff trapped it in a
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Is there an asbestos-contaminated tarantula on the loose in Cardiff?
In a story worthy of Arachnophobia, a routine survey by asbestos specialists has sparked fears there could be a large contaminated tarantula on the loose in Cardiff. The Kusten Vorland team carried out a routine inspection of a 19th century
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