Few spiders anywhere combine speed and lethality the way the Sydney funnel-web does. Native to a narrow band of eastern Australia centered on Sydney, the species has a bite that, left untreated, can ...

Among the thousands of spider species found around the world, only a small handful are considered capable of killing a healthy adult human with their bite, and one of the most notorious lives in ...

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 ...

Queensland researchers have developed a revolutionary drug called IB409, made using funnel web spider venom, that works by ...

One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest. Sydney funnel-web spiders ...

The world's most venomous spiders have been quietly keeping a secret, and it is woven from silk. A new field study 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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...

Convergent evolutionary signals in neural, synaptic, sensory, and motor-related genes are associated with the independent evolution of funnel-web building across multiple spider lineages. BEIJING, ...

A new species of relictual funnel-web spider discovered in northern Idaho extends the genus Hexura roughly 500 km beyond its ...

Researchers at the University of Idaho have identified a new species of spider in the mountains of northern Idaho and given it a name that pays tribute to the university itself: Hexura vandal. The ...