If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

Red widow spiders have entirely red-brown bodies, with the exception of their black abdomen. ©Florida Division of Plant Industry Archive / CC BY 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons – Original ...

Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

To feed, black widows puncture their insect prey with their fangs and administer digestive enzymes to the corpses. By using these enzymes, and their gnashing fangs, the spiders liquefy their prey ...

Horror new pictures show the spider's jet-black body and long, curved fangs, with one snap demonstrating its massive size. The species can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches), nearly twice the size of ...

The females are the most recognizable: Black body, solid red ... fangs are so skinny, there's never a visible puncture mark left on your skin. If you've been knowingly bitten by a black widow ...

They are sometimes confused with mouse spiders, which are also (mostly) shiny black spiders with large fangs, but mouse spiders lack the distinctive funnel-shaped web. Male Sydney funnel web ...

"This particular spider is a lot larger, its venom glands are a lot larger and its fangs are a lot longer," Christensen told Reuters. The huge black spiders are usually found within around 100 miles ...