Three new peacock spiders have been revealed by an Australian taxonomist, but he swears they are “harmless” and “charismatic”. The species from Western Australia were revealed by Joseph ...

Last week, people in the city of Albury in New South Wales, Australia, encountered an eerie sight — silky webs coated the land, teeming with millions of small baby spiders. The spiders ...

Getty A zoo in Australia is enlisting the public's help to catch and collect deadly funnel-web spiders to save lives. The Australian Reptile Park, located near Sydney, Australia, shared on ...

The Reddit user explained that the pregnant spider was "as large as a child-sized football" (soccer ball) and estimated that it weighed between 12 and 14 ounces. According to the Australian ...

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

Funnel-web spiders collected for the Sydney zoo are used to create the antivenom used to treat the spider's dangerous bite A zoo in Australia is enlisting the public's help to catch and collect ...