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 ...

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

Europe's largest spider has been found in England after travelled over from Spain in a shipment of olives. The Spanish funnel-web spider, revealed to be a female by its new owner, was spotted in a ...

EUROPE's biggest species of spider has arrived in Britain, with the venomous funnel-web creature spotted in a nursery yard. The terrifying stowaway, said to have a "huge appetite", was spotted by ...

Love them or hate them, it would seem spiders are definitely getting bigger and braver. Just take a look at the Spanish funnel-web spider, which was discovered at a nursery in West Sussex ...