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 ...

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.

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.

More than 100 venomous snakes have been captured in a backyard in Sydney's west in what snake catchers said was their biggest find ever.