Humans and other primates are particularly reactive to funnel-web venom, whereas dogs, cats and rabbits mostly shrug off the ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly to humans than that of any other spider, the iconic Sydney funnel-web has ...

Australia is the most notorious country on Earth for deadly wildlife. The red continent is thick with venomous snakes and spiders, toothy sharks and crocodiles, baby-eating dingoes, and the cassowary ...

Funnel-web spiders collected for the Sydney zoo are used to create the antivenom used to treat the spider's dangerous bite Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

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 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 ...

A researcher interacting with a K'gari funnel-web spider © University of Queensland Our ailing hearts might someday owe a debt of gratitude to a venomous spider ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a spider that they've unironically nicknamed "Big Boy." This arachnid is a larger, more venomous version of the Sydney funnel web, known to be one of the ...

King and his Institute colleague, heart disease expert Nathan Palpant, Ph.D., discovered that the Hi1a molecule from the ...

Funnel-web spiders collected for the Sydney zoo are used to create the antivenom used to treat the spider's dangerous bite A zoo in Australia is enlisting the public's help to catch and collect deadly ...