"Spiders do not usually run towards people when they sense danger. This would be like humans running towards something like ...

A SNEAKY spider that becomes “virtually invisible to predators” has been discovered. The critter is described as a “master ...

A team of scientists led by The University of Western Australia has discovered two new species of trapdoor spiders in the ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous ... because ...

Australia has a fearsome reputation for venomous animals. But when it comes to spiders, there is only one species we need to be worried about, says the Medical Director of the NSW Poisons ...

Of course, spiders aren’t the only venomous animals in Australia. It’s home to 20 of the world’s 25 deadliest snakes. Including the Eastern brown snake, which is responsible for the most ...

The Australian funnel-web spider is the largest known male of its kind collected by a member of the public foe the Australian Reptile Park A spider named after a mythological hero recently set a ...

The Australian native huntsman spider is a common creature to spot in some parts of the country - most commonly in Auckland, ...

Here are a few examples of the animals with the fastest-acting venom on earth (all of them found in Australia). Out of the 40,000 species of spiders (most of them venomous), the male Sydney Funnel ...

Two different spiders were found in the Kimberly region of northern Australia. They've been named Kwonkan fluctellus and Kwonkan nemoralis, and were found during 2022's "Bush Blitz" edpition.