Queensland researchers have developed a revolutionary drug called IB409, made using funnel web spider venom, that works by ...

We see a black funnel web spider with a red mark on its underside. It's on the brown dirt and its four front legs are raised, showing its fangs. We see a black funnel web spider with a red mark on its ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned the ...

Venom from the deadly funnel-web spider could soon be the key to preventing damage from heart attacks and strokes, as a ...

Professor Nathan Palpant, Professor Mark Smythe and Professor Glenn King.(Photo credit: The University of Queensland. ) A ...

SYDNEY – With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world's most venomous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save ...

With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world's most poisonous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save lives ...

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 ...

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 ...