On January 31, 2025, in Victoria, Australia, @brendanrogers4x4 shared a funny moment when his friend tried to catch a spider.

On January 31, 2025, in Victoria, Australia, @brendanrogers4x4 shared a funny moment when his friend tried to catch a spider. The friend initially managed to trap the spider in a glass container, but ...

Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in ...

Known for their fast-acting venom, funnel web spiders are both fascinating and intimidating. The family of Australian funnel web spiders includes the Sydney funnel web spider (Atrax robustus), a ...

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 (1.97 ...

Rising above a tall karri eucalypt forest, the granite domes of Western Australia’s Porongurup Range National ... These are the homes of the Porongurup trapdoor (Cataxia sp.), a shy brown spider that ...

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 had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth ...

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.