Not only is Hemsworth the most enormous funnel web spider in Australia, but he was also discovered to be a new species.

There are big spiders, and then there’s the Newcastle ‘Big Boy.’ First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the ...

Spider keeper Emma Teni in her office at the Australian Reptile Park ... thanks to its successful antivenom programme.

From land creatures like the eastern brown snake to sea dwellers ... web spiders were caused by the Sydney funnel-web spider. So why would the Australian Reptile Park need donations of this ...

Researchers have discovered a new and rare "giant" trapdoor spider species in Australia, the Queensland ... red exterior while females have a red-brown carapace. According to the BBC, the females ...

Each season, female brown widow spiders lay several egg sacs, each with 120 to 150 eggs. The egg sacs are distinctive, with silky spikes projecting from the surface, much like a thistle.

During a recent field trip through southern Australia ... and upper legs are orange-brown. The lower parts of their legs are darker. The spiders have a pale yellow abdomen that is marked with ...

Australian researchers have discovered a super-sized species of trapdoor spiders found only in Queensland ... Females of the species have a red-brown carapace, while males have a honey-red ...