Nature lover Robyn McLennan stumbled upon a frightening sight while taking pictures at a winery in Victoria, Australia, last week: a highly venomous redback spider taking on a deadly eastern brown ...

Male Australian redback spiders employ courtship strategies to preserve their life. Oct 22, 2009. Black widows invade Romanian shore. Jul 6, 2007. In the animal world, bigger isn't necessarily better.

Apparently, snake and spider confrontations are not all that rare of a sight at the company — or the country in general, as Maher pointed out to Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper. “It’s ...

The Australian Reptile Park wants to find the anonymous donor of the megaspider, ... (The other is the redback spider.) There have been no deaths by spider bite in the country since 1979.

Australia is infamous for its deadly snakes, spiders and sea creatures. One of the most notoriously dangerous is the redback spider, Latrodectus hasselti , which is similar to the widow spiders ...

In a world-first pilot study, researchers from the University of South Australia have used video footage of insects to ...

In Australia, deaths have been caused only by male Sydney funnel-web spiders and redback spiders. The Australian Museum says that funnel-web spiders, particularly the males, are among the ...

Funnel web spiders are one of only two types of arachnids that have caused deaths in Australia in the past, according to the Australian Museum. (The other is the redback spider.) There have been ...

Nott told Mashable Australia via Twitter that the broccoli was picked from the shelf unpackaged by her 9-year-old son, with the redback found in embedded in the middle. "The web was there and ...

All across Australia, white-tailed spiders are common in coastal regions. Fully grown, this spider is around 12 to 18 mm (0.47 to 0.70 inches) in size. It is gray or black, with white blotches on ...

This is because the black widow spider is found around the world, while the redback spider is found in Australia, Asia, ...

Although you can find spiders all over the place in Australia, you'd be hard pressed to find them lurking in the sterile surrounds of a supermarket. That's unless you're Queensland woman Dee Nott ...