Take an excursion into the world of working scientists studying Earth’s biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas!Sam Marshall loved animals but disliked school. Then, on his first college research project, he set out to study tarantulas, and everything changed.Now Sam’s a spider scientist extraordinaire, exploring the dense rainforest of French Guiana, knocking on the doors of tarantula burrows, and trying to get a closer look at these incredible creatures. Yellow blood, silk of steel, and skeletons on the outside are just a few of the attributes tarantulas boast. Join Sam as he visits the largest comparative spider laboratory in America where close to five hundred of these fascinating creatures live.