As a new app is launched to provide first-aid advice for venomous bites and stings, a reptile expert urges people to learn ...

Australia has a reputation for venomous wildlife, particularly spiders. A good part of that reputation comes from the deadly Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus. This particular spider has evaded ...

Finding a spider in a pair of shoes, a laundry basket, or in a closet is never a pleasant experience. As Australia is famous for its diverse creatures and its frightening spiders, people that live in ...

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 ...

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 ...