A video of a spider eating a bird has appeared on Reddit, with a minute-long clip showing what appears to be a pink toe tarantula ingesting a house wren. The video poster misidentifies the species as ...

The word “tarantula” is not commonly used in our everyday language. Yet, everyone immediately knows what it means: a large, hairy spider. Today, people might be more inclined to say “bird spider.” But ...

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