A woman has issued a warning to her neighbours after finding four venomous spiders in her swimming pool. Lynda Knight, who lives in New South Wales, Australia, spotted four eastern mouse spiders ...

Park staff first thought it was a female spider due to its size. However, upon closer inspection, they soon realized it was a male. According to the Australian Museum, the average length of a ...

Known for their fast-acting venom, funnel web spiders are both fascinating and intimidating. The family of Australian funnel ... They are sometimes confused with mouse spiders, which are also ...

but mouse spiders lack the distinctive funnel-shaped web. Australian funnel web spiders, particularly the Sydney funnel web spider, are considered some of the most venomous spiders in the world.

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.

(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 ...