Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Newcastle funnel-web spider has a body length of more than 9cm - Kane Christensen A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia has a reputation for venomous wildlife, particularly spiders. A good part of that reputation comes from the deadly ...

Finding a spider in a pair of shoes, a laundry basket, or in a closet is never a pleasant experience. As Australia is famous for its diverse creatures and its frightening spiders, people that live in ...

There are big spiders, and then there's the Newcastle 'Big Boy.' First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the largest type of funnel-web spider found in Australia. Confusion over the Big Boy ...

An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly to humans than that of any other spider, the iconic Sydney funnel-web has ...

Australia is known for its deadly creatures of unusual size. From the saltwater crocodile to the box jellyfish and even the eastern brown snake, these creatures are just a sampling of the critters ...

The Australian Reptile Park's spider keeper says she named the spider Hemsworth because the arachnid towers over other spiders, like the Hemsworth brothers Cover Images via AP Images From the same zoo ...

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 ...