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

The Australian Reptile Park has issued an urgent warning that the long-lasting effects of COVID-19 lockdowns are still being ...

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its own right.

We see a black funnel web spider with a red mark on its underside. It's on the brown dirt and its four front legs are raised, showing its fangs. We see a black funnel web spider with a red mark on its ...

SYDNEY (AP) — With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world's most venomous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The country’s only supplier of funnel-web venom for Australia’s antivenom program is operating at just half its usual spider ...

Venom from the deadly funnel-web spider could soon be the key to preventing damage from heart attacks and strokes, as a “promising” Queensland trial enters its first clinical phase for the treatment.

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 ...

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 ...

SYDNEY – With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world's most venomous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save ...