Suddenly, out runs a huge, hairy spider. Australia’s huntsman spiders are ... may stretch 15cm and they lay egg sacs the size of golf balls. Anyone who has chased a leggy huntsman knows that ...

Getty A zoo in Australia is enlisting the public's help to catch and collect deadly funnel-web spiders to save lives. The Australian Reptile Park, located near Sydney, Australia, shared on ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the fossilized remains of a trapdoor spider, the largest to date in the country. The fossilized spider was found near Gulgong, New South Wales, last week by a ...

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’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth ...

Residents of Sydney have been asked to safely capture the funnel-web spider, one of Australia's most venomous creatures, as part of an effort to produce life-saving anti-venom. The Australian ...

Australia and spiders go together like chips and gravy. And this amazing fossil of a "giant" Trapdoor spider proves it. The fossil is between 11 to 16 million-years-old and was found in the centre ...

"It was $30 a spider," she said. Within days, an Australia Post package arrived. Inside were four sealed plastic takeaway food containers, each containing leaves, cricket feed and a spindly ...