Alternatively, the foot secretions may have evolved independently in tarantulas to help the relatively large spiders move around safely, he adds. |
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. |
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 group got to witness pure nature and animals like toucans, howler monkeys, tarantulas and various lizards. |
These hot and dry rocky slopes support scorpions, tarantulas, collared lizards, pygmy rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and prickly pear cacti. |