Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say.

Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in ...

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique snapshot ...

Arachnids, particularly spiders, play a critical role in maintaining the balance of ... A fascinating example of this is the newly discovered giant trapdoor spider, Euoplos dignitas, found in ...

If you thought Australia’s spiders were scary, wait until you see the prehistoric version. Scientists have found a fossilised giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales, only the fourth specimen ...

The discovery was made by Kane Christensen, a spider enthusiast and former head of spiders at the Australian Reptile Park. Christensen described the spider as significantly larger, with notably bigger ...

Rising above a tall karri eucalypt forest, the granite domes of Western Australia’s Porongurup Range ... National Park’s ‘Tree-in-a-rock’ – a giant karri tree growing out of a granite boulder. The ...

From the same zoo in Australia that gave us giant spiders Hercules and Colossus comes an arachnid that is ... even bigger. The Australian Reptile Park recently recorded its largest male funnel-web ...

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Funnel-web spiders, which are mostly found in Australia, differ from other spiders with funnel-shaped webs. The most notorious is Atrax robustus, which is commonly known as the Sydney funnel-web ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...