There are several genera of funnel web spiders, but the most common ones in Australia are Atrax, Hadronyche, and Illawarra.

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

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

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

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

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

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Spiders are some of the most common creatures we share our homes with. While they may seem scary at first, most house spider species are harmless and even helpful, keeping pest insects under control.

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

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

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

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