The species has fangs that produce a painful bite, like a wasp sting, resulting in a range of unpleasant symptoms that can ...

There are more than 43,000 species of spider in the world and one of them "can kill a toddler in five minutes".

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions ...

"If you are bitten by a funnel-web spider, call an ambulance and go straight to hospital," researcher Geoff Isbister said.

Venomous spiders are spreading across the UK and hospitalising a record number of people. Only 10 species currently in the country have the fangs and jaw muscles needed to penetrate human skin. The ...

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

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in ...

The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.

It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...