They can come on a ship or hop on a plane. Whatever the means of transportation non-native species are arriving in Antarctica as tourism and climate increase. "Antarctica has long been considered as an isolated continent with a harsh environment. So the general perception has been that we don't have to worry about non-native species. We know better now," said Dr. Neil Gilbert, environmental manager of Antarctica New Zealand.

A man gave a package to one of his female co-workers that seemed to startle everyone. Mahlon Hector pleaded guilty to delivering a rare Mexican red-kneed tarantula in a box addressed to the colleague. While his coworker got that gift, he gave his resignation to his boss.

An apparently angry ex-boyfriend has been arrested in England for mailing a woman a live, poisonous, 5-inch Mexican red-kneed tarantula. The unidentified woman received the plastic box at a Fosse Park mall where she worked, and was horrified when she opened the box and saw the colorful hairy spider nestled on tissue paper, The Telegraph reported. Luckily for her, as fearsome as the spider looks, it is mostly docile and did not attack.

A nudist suffered burns to one-fifth of his body after he tried to set a spider on fire while naked in a resort near the Australian city of Bowral, near Sydney. An ambulance service spokesperson said, the 56-year-old victim tried to kill what he thought was a deadly funnel web spider by pouring gasoline down the spider's burrow and lighting it with a match.

New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori, who directed the James Bond movie "Die Another Day," has been arrested in a Hollywood prostitution sting while dressed in drag, AFP reports. According to a criminal complaint filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, Tamahori, 55, was arrested on January 8 when he allegedly sought sex with an undercover policeman while clad in women's clothes.