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

Movies about creepy crawlers, like shark films, have carved out their own horror subgenre — scientific accuracy aside. ‘Sting ...

Emma Teni extracts venom from Sydney funnel-web spiders at the Australian Reptile Park, crucial for the national antivenom ...

While the quickest recorded death from a Sydney funnel-web spider was a toddler at 13 minutes, the average is closer to 76 ...

WATCH this battle of Australia’s most deadly as a redback spider attacks a brown snake in Victoria’s north. A video posted by North Vic Engines Cobram shows the fight unfold between the venomo ...

Biologist Christian Raboch made a horrifying discovery in Brazil after checking into a rented room for a science conference — it was infested with brown recluse spiders, whose bites can rot flesh and ...

Spiders represent just one small part of what the Australian Reptile Park does ... Removing a King Brown snake from its storage locker, Billy Collett, the park's operations manager, brings ...

What has eight eyes, eight legs, is brown or grey, and lurks in Aussie homes ... In fact, it’s the Huntsman Telescope, a new telescope type that debuted this year at Australia’s national optical ...

Tiny, feathered, and fatally toxic, these birds prove danger can come in beautiful packages.When we think of poison in the ...

An important message from residents who live in areas who have been affected by flood water asks people to refrain from flood ...