While they may incite fear due to their impressive dimensions, these spiders play crucial roles in their ecosystems and have become subjects of significant scientific interest and study.

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...

He's the biggest spider." Cover Images via AP Images Massive Huntsman Spider Eats a Possum in Front of Horrified Ski Lodge Guest Typically, female funnel-web spiders are larger than their male ...

An Australian woman returned home from vacation to find a horrifying sight in her home, and TikTok viewers are sharing her fright. Alexandra Tuohey traveled to Sydney with her family for a week, but ...

While you might assume this giant spider is a domestic insect pest, most huntsman species are helpful to humans, eating those pesky cockroaches and mosquitoes that destroy plants and carry disease.

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 ...

From the same zoo in Australia that gave us giant spiders Hercules and Colossus comes an arachnid that is ... even bigger. The Australian Reptile Park recently recorded its largest male funnel-web ...