"If you are bitten by a funnel-web spider, call an ambulance and go straight to hospital," researcher Geoff Isbister said.

Now, a new species of funnel-web spider has been discovered, and it is larger and even deadlier than all other funnel-web ...

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the ...

There are more than 43,000 species of spider in the world and one of them "can kill a toddler in five minutes".

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in ...

It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a ‘giant’ species of Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world’s deadliest.

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists.

A new type of spider, nicknamed the ‘big boy’, has officially been discovered in Australia- and immediately became one of the ...