And not measuring bigger than a paperclip, but going by the name "wolf?" It's no wonder wolf spiders are considered the stuff that fuels nightmares and unwelcome house guests when they slip in ...

What they look like: There are over 200 species of wolf spiders crawling around, Potzler explains. And, since they’re hairy they can sometimes be mistaken for tarantulas. Also worth noting ...

A pilot on an Iberia Airlines flight to Madrid was bitten by a spider mid-flight. The crew members suspect it was a tarantula ...

The dangerous tarantula myth might in part be derived from stories about another spider with a similar name. In southern Italy, the wolf spider, or “tarantula,” a large arachnid found near ...