Scared of tarantulas? You're not alone — but Jeni Ruisch, director of outreach for the entomology department at The Ohio State University, is here to debunk their bad reputation. Tarantulas: friends ...

“Are you scared?” I asked the person next to me. We were both crouched over a tarantula roughly the size of my hand, our faces inches away from its hairy legs and enormous, fanged chelicerae. “No,” he ...