Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

A man in the Australian state of Victoria wanted to catch a giant crab spider with a glass food jar. But the hunt went ...

With eight very long legs, the ability to dart like lightning, and the name "hunts man", it's no wonder this iconic Australian arachnid is as feared ...

Astronomers sifting through data from the Murchison Widefield Array, a radio telescope in Western Australia, found themselves ...

But researchers have taken a closer look at this spider and discovered something unexpected: it isn’t a single species at all. This male ... which researchers at the Australian Reptile Park ...

Local drivers are used to seeing local wildlife hiding in their cars. But it's this aquatic hitchhiker that has the internet buzzing.

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus centres on the North Shore of Sydney and the Central Coast, and the ...

Intrigued, researchers collected funnel-web spiders from the Sydney region and compared them with specimens held in the Australian Museum ... to be effective across all the species, the new ...