The cobalt-blue hue of many tarantulas did not evolve as a way to woo mates, say researchers who recently took a closer look at the furry spider's flashy color.

Like other tarantulas, the cobalt blue tarantula is nocturnal. It makes its home in southeast Asia's tropical forests, where it likes to live alone in a burrow dug into the ground.

Our first blue species is the cobalt blue tarantula (Cyriopagopus lividus). Unfortunately, little is known about the ecology and habits of all of our three popular species and most of what is ...

Tarantulas: big, hairy, eight-legged, terrifying nightmares to some, adorable pets to others, blue. Wait, blue? Yes. Blue. Although most of the 900 or so species of tarantulas are varying shades ...

Whether ultramarine, cerulean, Egyptian or cobalt, blue pigments have colored artworks for centuries. Now, seemingly out of the blue, scientists have discovered a new blue pigment that uses less ...

While walking through the forests of Guyana’s Potaro Plateau one night in 2014, herpetologist Andrew Snyder noticed a flash of bright cobalt blue peeking out of hole in a rotting tree stump ...