Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax ...

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

Females sometimes kill and eat their counterparts after mating ... but the web remains. Black widow spiders also use their webs to ensnare their prey, which consists of flies, mosquitoes ...

Wolf spiders are beneficial because they eat other insects ... spiders that chase their prey rather than catching them in ...

They have black stripes on their legs. Golden orbweaver spiders create intricate webs that can be up to five feet in diameter. They will eat pretty much anything that gets trapped in their web ...

In a large-scale census of indoor bugs conducted by North Carolina State University, researchers found cellar spiders “in ...

their bodies, legs and eyes. The report includes some time lapse film of a spider building a web and eating an insect. This clip comes from the BBC series, Our Planet: Spiders and Animal Shelters.

They're notable for having a red hourglass marking on their dark brown or black bodies ... The Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) can cause serious illness and even death in humans.

THOUSANDS of giant fish-eating spiders the size of your hand have ... movements below the surface thanks to tiny hairs on their legs. Their webs can stretch up to a whopping 25cm, making them ...

The funnel-web, which measured in at 9.2cm, was donated to the park’s antivenom program this week, making it the biggest male funnel-web ever donated. An average sized funnel-web spider.

The Australian Reptile Park's spider keeper says she named the spider Hemsworth because the arachnid towers over other spiders, like the Hemsworth brothers Cover Images via AP Images From the same ...