A member of the public caught and donated the giant arachnid to the Australian Reptile Park in Somersby, New South Wales. The zoo encourages donations to support its spider venom program ...

Researchers from Flinders University in Australia, the Australian Museum, and the German Leibniz Institute discovered a new, highly venomous spider species. Atrax christenseni, or Big Boy, is a ...

If you trap a sleeping spider under a blanket by your leg, there’s a chance you’ll scare or hurt it, causing it to bite out of defense. A redback spider and her eggs saks. ©anystock/Shutterstock.com ...

A fascinating example of this is the newly discovered giant trapdoor spider, Euoplos dignitas, found in Queensland, Australia. A team of researchers from Queensland Museum’s Project DIG recently ...

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 had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a ‘giant’ species of Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world’s deadliest. Nicknamed ‘Big Boy’, the species was originally found by Kane ...

Australia has earned its reputation for harboring creatures that make many people uneasy. Spiders in particular stand out. For decades, the iconic Sydney funnel-web spider has fueled stories of ...