Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently ... lethal venom through a human fingernail, zoo keepers said. A member of the public caught and donated the giant arachnid to the Australian ...

Those living in São Thomé das Letras in Brazil got to see a "rain of spiders", when the Parawixia bistriata creates an ...

from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories Though females are larger, male funnel-web spiders are about six times more venomous than females. The Australian Reptile Park will ...

Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in ...

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one of the world’s deadliest spiders – and found there were three species, ...

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

“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 ...

Huntsman spiders are expert hunters (duh). Unlike other spiders that build webs to ... assume this giant spider is a domestic insect pest, most huntsman species are helpful to humans, eating ...

The spider is so large, its fangs could pierce and deliver their lethal venom through a human fingernail, zoo keepers said. Sydney funnel-web spiders ... and donated the giant arachnid to the ...

From the same zoo in Australia that gave us giant spiders Hercules ... news to compelling human interest stories Though females are larger, male funnel-web spiders are about six times more ...

Huntsman spiders are expert hunters (duh). Unlike other spiders that build webs to capture their ... While you might assume this giant spider is a domestic insect pest, most huntsman species are ...