A video of baby funnel-web spiders emerging from an egg sac in Australia created a stir across social media this weekend. The video, posted to Facebook by the Australian Reptile Park on Friday ...

Oh, also it's mating season. Well my friends, that’s because spider season is upon us and the world’s deadliest spider could be crawling into your home in droves this Christmas. WATCH: Utterly ...

Funnel web spiders are a group of spiders that belong to the Dipluridae family in the order Araneida. They get this name from the shape of the web that they weave. Since there are several varieties of ...

An antivenom program in Australia has hailed the hatching of more than 100 funnel-web spiders as researchers seek to learn more about breeding and raising them in captivity.Oct. 11, 2019 ...

Spiders on their own are disconcerting enough. So how about a sack full of tiny little crawling spiders? A video of a funnel web egg being cut open to reveal hundreds of the arachnids inside was ...

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 species ...

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 ...

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 ...