What’s new — The king baboon spider (Pelinobius muticus) is a type of African tarantula that spends most of its time underground minding its own business, but these researchers sought to ...

Try not to annoy the king baboon spider, a tarantula native to Tanzania and Kenya: Its excruciating bite can cause days of pain, swelling, and muscle spasms in humans. With that in mind ...

With some of the longest hair of any spider, the Chaco golden-knee tarantula is a quintessential example of the tarantula ...

Scientists have uncovered how a bite from the King Baboon spider causes a harsh ... that the inhibitory Pm1a protein was abundant in the tarantula’s venom, which led to severe pain by acting ...

From the King Baboon Spider to the Goliath Bird Eating tarantula, here are the biggest spiders in the world. Probably the biggest spider in Africa (and native to Tanzania and Kenya), the King Baboon ...

In the new study, published in the journal PNAS on Monday, researchers analysed venom from King Baboon spiders (Pelinobius muticus), large tarantulas found in Kenya and Tanzania. They found that the ...