The video examines a newly identified spider bite risk linked to the Colombian funnel web spider. Researchers explain how recent findings brought this species into focus. Attention centers on venom ...

The Newcastle funnel-web spider has a body length of more than 9cm - Kane Christensen A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by ...

Queensland researchers have developed a revolutionary drug called IB409, made using funnel web spider venom, that works by ...

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 ...

There are big spiders, and then there’s the Newcastle ‘Big Boy.’ First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the largest type of funnel-web spider found in Australia. Confusion over the Big Boy ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...