Finding a spider in a pair of shoes, a laundry basket, or in a closet is never a pleasant experience. As Australia is famous for its diverse creatures and its frightening spiders, people that live in ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...

Queensland researchers have developed a revolutionary drug called IB409, made using funnel web spider venom, that works by ...

An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly to humans than that of any other spider, the iconic Sydney funnel-web has ...

Can a black widow spider bite kill you? Yes. It's one of the deadliest spiders on earth. According to information from Ohio State University, the venom can be 15 times more potent than a rattlesnake's ...

There are big spiders, and then there’s the Newcastle ‘Big Boy.’ First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the largest type of funnel-web spider found in Australia. Confusion over the Big Boy ...

Australia is the most notorious country on Earth for deadly wildlife. The red continent is thick with venomous snakes and spiders, toothy sharks and crocodiles, baby-eating dingoes, and the cassowary ...

A review back in 2021 documented cases of spiders preying on snakes, turning up 319 reports from every continent except ...

A reptile expert has shared his fears that a deadly spider species could invade the UK. Chris Newman, Director of the National Centre for Reptile Welfare, said he is worried that the Black Widow ...