The Australian funnel-web spider is the largest known male of its kind collected by a member of the public foe the Australian Reptile Park A spider named after a mythological hero recently set a ...

Just weeks before his first birthday, Kirsty Bryant's son Henry was bitten by a deadly funnel-web spider inside their northern NSW home. Not long after, he stopped breathing.

The team focused on the Pennsylvania grass spider (Agelenopsis pennsylvanica), a quarter-sized arachnid that’s widespread across North America. Also known as funnel-weaving spiders, these ...

A nursery owner was in for a surprise when a large venomous spider with a “huge appetite” arrived with his delivery of olives. The Spanish funnel-web spider, which is thought to be Europe’s ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...

One of Europe’s largest spiders was spotted in a delivery of olives from Spain this week, startling a nursery owner. The Spanish funnel-web spider is a venomous species with a ‘huge appetite ...

Large numbers of spiders are entering Oxfordshire homes as Europe’s largest spider was found at a nursery. The Spanish funnel-web spider, which is thought to be Europe’s largest, was spotted ...