Spider expert Emma Teni explains why funnel-web spiders are flooding backyards right now, where to find them, and what to do ...

Queensland researchers have developed a revolutionary drug called IB409, made using funnel web spider venom, that works by preventing cell death during heart attacks and strokes. For the first time, ...

The Australian Reptile Park has issued an urgent warning that the long-lasting effects of COVID-19 lockdowns are still being ...

From the same zoo in Australia that gave us giant spiders Hercules and Colossus comes an arachnid that is ... even bigger. The Australian Reptile Park recently recorded its largest male funnel-web ...

Almost every Australian is taught, from a very young age, to be cautious around the funnel-web spider. These large, black, aggressive arachnids can be found along the eastern coast of the continent, ...

The country’s only supplier of funnel-web venom for Australia’s antivenom program is operating at just half its usual spider ...

Largest male funnel-web spider, 'Hemsworth.' 31,515 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?31,515 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it ...

Australian Reptile Park spider expert Rob Porter milks a male Sydney funnel-web spider to create antivenom in 2001. Sydney Morning Herald Picture by Andrew Taylor, Fairfax Media via Getty Images It’s ...

(CNN) — 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’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the ...

The revolutionary treatment has already been administered to the first participants in a clinical trial to look into whether the venom could prevent damage to the heart and brain. The team at the ...

The infamous Sydney funnel-web spider, known for its deadly bite and fearsome reputation, has just had its identity shaken up by science. What was once thought to be a single species, researchers have ...