Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

On January 31, 2025, in Victoria, Australia, @brendanrogers4x4 shared a funny moment when his friend tried to catch a spider.

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists.

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus centres on the North Shore of Sydney and the Central Coast, and the ...

"Since 1981, the Australian Reptile Park, situated in Somersby, NSW, has run a Venom Milking Program to gather venom from Sydney funnel-web spiders for antivenom production," Dr. Harms explained.

A statement from the Sydney National Museum and Newcastle University said a new subspecies of deadly venomous spiders has been ...

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

Rising above a tall karri eucalypt forest, the granite domes of Western Australia’s Porongurup Range National ... These are the homes of the Porongurup trapdoor (Cataxia sp.), a shy brown spider that ...

The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.

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 ...