Researchers studying interactions between predators and their prey in the Amazon rainforest spotted one encounter with a giant spider that'll leave arachnophobes trembling. Scientists stumbled upon a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A giant tarantula has been filmed dragging a young opossum away to its death in what is thought to be the first ever ...

A dinner plate-sized tarantula with a big appetite preyed on a young opossum during a recent hunt in the Amazon rainforest — and the horrifying encounter was caught on tape. Biologists at the ...

The dark jungle is full of terrors. As it should be, because chaos reigns in the wild, and spotting the peculiar or unexpected is the norm. "We're always seeing crazy things," University of Michigan ...

Colombia is located in northwestern South America, with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The Andes Mountains dominate the western landscape, while the Amazon rainforest and ...

Rudolf von May has seen some pretty wild things in Peru’s Amazon rainforest. But this took things to a whole new level. There, caught on a team member’s cell phone video, was a giant tarantula, about ...