SYDNEY — Some Sydney funnel-web spiders are scrambling into the Australian brush carrying special cargo: a telemetry tracker to study how far a mature male can travel at night and whether their ...

One of the world's most deadly spiders may have developed its extremely toxic venom as a way of protecting itself while on its annual sex march. The venom of Australian funnel-web spiders contains ...

We see a Sydney-funnel web spider (Atrax robustus) preparing to strike. It has a red abdomen and black legs and fangs.It's on a green leaf. Deadly spiders that can survive underwater for over 24 hours ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

A massive funnel-web spider with fangs capable of piercing human fingernails has been donated to an antivenom program in Australia, sparking an appeal for its anonymous donor to come forward.

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named ...