Certain species are more docile and better suited for handling, such as the Chilean rose hair or the Mexican red-knee tarantula. Furthermore, always pay attention to your tarantula’s body language.

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Australian researchers found that peptides isolated from the Brazilian tarantula and Japanese horseshoe crab can “kill metastatic melanoma cells” Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Their soft tongues combined with what researchers call “snot-like spit” allow them to catch hairy prey like tarantulas as well as smooth prey such as other frogs. Karen B. London, Ph.D. is a ...

Mexico's president rebuffed President-elect Donald Trump's call to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" with a suggestion that the United States ought to be renamed "Mexican America." ...

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Pedro López Camacho at the homeless encampment where he lives in Culiacán, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, the stronghold of the Sinaloa Cartel and a hub of fentanyl production.Credit ...

Magazine. Jaime Nogales/Medios y Media/Getty Mexican singer Dulce La Cantante has died. She was 69 years old. News of her death was shared on Facebook on Wednesday, Dec. 25, via her family.

Mexican romantic music singer Dulce has died. On Christmas Day, the family of the Eighties pop star, behind hits “Muñeca” and “Lobo,” announced that she had died, just weeks after undergo ...

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MEXICO CITY, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday suggested North America including the United States could be renamed "Mexican America" - an historic name used on an ...

Initially, ten spiders contained in plastic boxes were found outside the centre, but one tarantula later died, the charity said. The others were transported to the RSPCA’s dedicated reptile rescue, in ...