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

Scientists at the Australian Museum reported they’ve discovered a new species of spider, and it’s so deadly that just one ...

Sharone Lifschitz is well aware that the odds are against her 84-year-old father. As one of the oldest hostages taken by ...

Let's talk about the woodlouse spider, an arachnid with a unique hunting style and impressive jaws. Known scientifically as ...

A massive funnel web spider, the largest ever discovered, has been named ‘Hemsworth’ after the famous brothers. The Australian Reptile Park received the spider for its antivenom program during peak ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a “nose” to detect the sex ...