Humans and other primates are particularly reactive to funnel-web venom, whereas dogs, cats and rabbits mostly shrug off the ...

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 ...

King and his Institute colleague, heart disease expert Nathan Palpant, Ph.D., discovered that the Hi1a molecule from the ...

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 ...

The largest male specimen yet of the most venomous spider in the world has been found in Australia. "Hercules," a funnel-web spider, is 3.1 inches (7.9 centimeters) from hairy foot to hairy foot, ...