There are a staggering 43,000 species of spiders, and among them, the Sydney funnel-web is considered the most dangerous - ...

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

Shutterstock Images Me and spiders are not friends. I know, I know, they do good things. But honestly the way they move, and ...

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

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

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

The Australian Reptile Park's spider keeper says she named the spider Hemsworth because the arachnid towers over other ...

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

Scientists in Australia have discovered a spider that they've unironically nicknamed "Big Boy." This arachnid is a larger, ...

Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested ...

This particular spider is a lot larger, its venom glands are a lot larger and its fangs are a lot longer,' the spider ...

Atrax christenseni, after noticing differences in spiders from the Newcastle area, marking a significant contribution to ...