The Goliath birdeater spider, native to South America's rainforests, is the biggest spider in the world, with a leg span reaching up to 12 inches (31 cm). The giant huntsman spider, found in Laos, ...

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

but it's a record-breaker in its own right. The huntsman ties for the title of the largest leg span of any spider in the world: a staggering 12 inches (30 centimeters). Discovered in a cave in ...

There have been no deaths since the antivenom was introduced in the 1980s. In 2024, a Sydney funnel-web spider found in Australia set a record as the largest spider at the Australian Reptile Park. It ...

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 ...

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest ... Last week, a record-breaking Newcastle funnel-web spider was caught in the wild and presented to the Australian ...

which has the largest collection of funnel-web spiders in the world. The scientists closely observed the specimens under a microscope and analyzed their genetics. The Sydney funnel-web 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 ...

A massive specimen of one of the world's most ... it is the largest funnel-web spider ever received by the park. Hemsworth's size surpasses the previous record set by Hercules — who measures ...

the spider spans 9.2 centimeters (about 3.6 inches) from foot to foot, according to the Australian Reptile Park. It surpasses the record set by the park’s previous biggest, Hercules, which ...