One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest. Sydney funnel-web spiders ...

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, Atrax robustus, has been implicated in most human fatalities caused by funnel-web species, and ...

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 ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday, ...

NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia – A reptile park in Australia is warning residents to keep their eyes peeled for a large, deadly spider species as summer approaches. The funnel-web spider is one of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SYDNEY (AP) — With fangs that could pierce a ...

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named ...

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 in ...

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 zoo ...