What could be hiding in the shadowy corners of Australian homes and gardens is one of the world’s most feared spiders, the funnel-web spider. These spiders are enough to make even the bravest among us ...

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 ...

On this episode of Breaking Trail, Coyote takes in a Sydney Funnel Web Spider for venom extraction! In Australia, there is one species of spider that strikes fear into the hearts of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SYDNEY (AP) — With fangs that could pierce a ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A massive funnel-web spider with fangs capable of piercing human fingernails has been donated to an antivenom program in ...