As children, we may have all been scared of spiders. Still, many of the world’s population is suffering from arachnophobia, the extreme fear of spiders. A Goliath bird-eating spider (Theraphosa blondi ...

Known for their fast-acting venom, funnel web spiders are both fascinating and intimidating. The family of Australian funnel web spiders includes the Sydney funnel web spider (Atrax robustus), a ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous city, was long thought to be a single species. But it’s actually three different ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth in ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

The thrills and guffaws of Australian horror-comedy Birdeater are designed to hit close to home. It isn't quite horror in the traditional sense—there's no real genre bent to it, nothing gory or ...

It is nicknamed the Goliath birdeater because a spider from another member of the tarantula family was spotted eating a hummingbird. This led to the entire Theraphosa genus being nicknamed “bird ...