A video of hundreds of spiders "falling from the sky" in Brazil turned out to be a mating event, experts explained.

A statement from the Sydney National Museum and Newcastle University said a new subspecies of deadly venomous spiders has been ...

A Queensland man has made a dramatic escape from a battery fire at a unit block, with locals dubbing him the Gold Coast’s ...

former head of spiders at the Australian Reptile Park, who first described it in the early 2000s and gave the spiders the nickname "big boys." These funnel-web spiders are the largest of the three ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday, ...

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of ...

Also dubbed “Big Boy,” the Newcastle funnel-web is new to science and is named after Kane Christensen, a former employee at the Australian Reptile Park who brought the spiders to the ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus centres on the North Shore of Sydney and the Central Coast, and the ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...