The Newcastle Big Boy is one of Australia's biggest spiders. Learn more about this venomous species and its newly-classified ...

A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized ... arriving in a West Sussex nursery hidden inside an olive tree shipment from Córdoba, Spain. This discovery has sparked curiosity ...

It’s known, for example, that some birds delay their dawn chorus until aircraft noise diminishes while brown tree frogs ... shows the webs of funnel-weaving spiders transmit vibrations ...

The next time you sweep away a cobweb without a second thought, consider this: the silken structure is an engineering marvel. According to new research published last week in Current Biology, a ...

In Australia, residents are urged to capture funnel-web spiders, despite their deadly reputation. These spiders' venom is crucial for producing life-saving antivenom, especially during breeding ...

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 ...

In the study, published in Current Biology, the team observed 60 Agelenopsis pennsylvanica or Pennsylvania funnel-web spiders as part of the study - some from urban areas and some from rural.

It’s known, for example, that some birds delay their dawn chorus until aircraft noise diminishes while brown tree frogs raise the pitch ... University of Nebraska-Lincoln, shows the webs of ...