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The tarantula's fangs are nearly half an inch long, about a sixth the size of its body.
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The giant Australian tarantula only occasionally eats birds.
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Bloomberg reports the dinner also served appetizers featuring tarantula and cockroach.
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Such tricks of light are also used by intensely blue animals such as peacocks, Morpho butterflies and the awesome blue tarantulas discovered in Guyana last year.
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Watch out for tarantulas and broken Tequila bottles.
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With that in mind, the authors' ultimate conclusion is that this is one of the earliest members of the order Araneae, which includes true spiders and tarantulas.
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Although generally sweet-natured, the Chaco golden knee, like many other tarantulas, may flick irritating hairs at people when alarmed.
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Webbing is a fairly new adaptation in the arachnid family, which encompasses not just spiders, but also tarantulas, scorpions, mites, and ticks.
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Origin and Etymology of tarantula
First Known Use: 1561
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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: a large, hairy spider that lives in warm regions
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