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

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...

Dubbed "Big boy'" the impressive spider can grow up to 3.54 inches (9cm) compared with 1.97 inches (5cm) for the more common ...

It started with vanity, as so many health sagas do. I've never had supermodel legs, but in my 30s and 40s, I started noticing thin, squiggly blue and purple veins mostly below my knees and around ...

The study marks a major shift in understanding the Sydney funnel-web spider, with each newly identified species occupying ...

Brown snakes, funnel web spiders, and the blue-ringed octopuses are among the animals that you do not want to mess with. We spoke with Steve Trim at Venomtech who helped us rank some of the ...

which is found most commonly in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, and the Newcastle funnel-web, the largest and most formidable of the three. The bigger the spider, the bigger its bite ...