| Baboon spiders or tarantulas, as they are known outside Africa, are the giants of the spider world. |
| The Australian spider is distantly related to our tarantulas, which are barely toxic. |
| They had everything from hideous beetles to hairy tarantulas that looked as though they could give an Irish wolfhound a run for its money. |
| The children were given the chance to handle giant snails, snake, frogs, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and cockroaches. |
| An evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University specializes in trapdoor and funnel-web spiders, and tarantulas. |
| Despite the complications, the surgeries typically go smoothly and most tarantulas emerge unscathed. |
