a former employee at the Australian Reptile Park who brought the spiders to the researchers’ attention. The conservation status of the Sydney funnel-web hasn’t been assessed on the IUCN Red ...

An Australian man thought there were six venomous red-bellied black snakes slithering in a pile of mulch in his backyard.

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 ...

Male spiders are pale brown with faint white markings and lack the bright red stripe ... the Southern Hemisphere cousin is smaller. Yes, Australian redback spiders are dangerous.

This discovery was made thanks to the analysis of both new spider specimens and samples from the Australian Museum. The researchers began this work after unusually large funnel-webs were ...

Here’s how it works. One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest.

A formidable native bird of prey, the red goshawk has been sighted in Central Australia for the first time in three decades.

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists. Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm ...