Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia has a reputation for venomous wildlife, particularly spiders. A good part of that reputation comes from the deadly ...

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 ...

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 in ...

This video investigates Australia’s largest spider species, focusing on a little-known behavior that changes how they are understood. The footage examines size, habitat, and movement before revealing ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous city, was long thought to be a single species. But it’s actually three different species ...

There are big spiders, and then there’s the Newcastle ‘Big Boy.’ First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the largest type of funnel-web spider found in Australia. Confusion over the Big Boy ...

They say good things come in threes—but is that true even for the most venomous spider in the world? Scientists in Germany and Australia have reclassified one of the world’s most infamous arachnids.

Quick Take Achieving survival after a Redback bite once required 1 specific intervention to prevent a fatal outcome. The 0.5-inch threshold creates a classification crisis when identifying the larger ...

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