It happens in an instant. A sharp pain shoots through your foot. You look down, expecting a small insect or a thorn, but ...

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 ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus, has been implicated in most human fatalities caused by funnel-web species, and despite the development of a life-saving antivenom in the early 1980s, it ...

Sydneysiders have been warned about a surge of the world’s most venomous spider as the wet season approaches — but are urged ...

One of Australia’s most deadly arachnids whose bite can kill in minutes could soon be saving lives rather than taking them.