Few creatures have earned a reputation as chilling as the Sydney funnel-web spider. Found across eastern Australia, this ...

You may have heard the most dangerous spider in the world is the Sydney funnel-web spider, but you may not know how many people it kills per year.

Almost every Australian is taught, from a very young age, to be cautious around the funnel-web spider. These large, black, aggressive arachnids can be found along the eastern coast of the continent, ...

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. Sydney funnel-web spiders ...

Australia is known for its deadly creatures of unusual size. From the saltwater crocodile to the box jellyfish and even the eastern brown snake, these creatures are just a sampling of the critters ...

SYDNEY — 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 nickname "Big ...

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 ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a spider that they've unironically nicknamed "Big Boy." This arachnid is a larger, more venomous version of the Sydney funnel web, known to be one of the ...

Many spiders are mistaken for the brown recluse, but few have toxic venom, and even fewer are a threat to humans.

The new pesticide, based on the venom of a particular spider, kills common agricultural pests but leaves honeybees unharmed. (See “Honeybees in East Africa Resist Deadly Pathogens.”) The bee-friendly ...