The Goliath birdeater doesn't just it birds. It also eats small rodents, frogs and insects. Milan Zygmunt / Shutterstock ...

That said, at least half of the Goliath birdeater's name is accurate because it's a real giant. It's the world's largest spider — and the heaviest. Native to South America's rainforests ...

Well, this spider (sometimes misnamed the Goliath bird-eating spider) is huge, but it doesn't eat birds often enough to warrant the name. That said, at least half of the Goliath birdeater's name is ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.

They say good things come in threes—but is that true even for the most venomous spider in the world? Scientists in ... “Big Boy” since it is the largest of the three species.

The world's most venomous spider is a frightening creature that's killed 13 people, with experts warning that it could "kill a toddler in five minutes". Of the staggering 43,000 venomous spider ...

From the same zoo in Australia that gave us giant spiders Hercules and Colossus comes an arachnid that is ... even bigger. The Australian Reptile Park recently recorded its largest male funnel-web ...

This week the Australian Reptile Park welcomed a lethal new resident who they say is the biggest male funnel-web spider ever recorded at 9.2cm from ‘foot to foot’ – and he is named Hemsworth.

The Sydney funnel-back spider has held the title of world’s most venomous spider ... to new research from BMC Ecology and Evolution, the biggest of these spiders, the aforementioned ‘big ...

(CNN) — A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth ...