The 43-year-old's hand, arm, leg and even foot ballooned as the venom took hold and he was rushed to hospital.

A DAD has been left arthritic after his limbs nearly “exploded” from what he believes was a bite from a false widow spider.

Dad-of-three Brian Smith, 43, from Maidstone, Kent, almost had to have his limbs amputated and developed arthritis after he ...

Taxonomically, they are in the infraorder mygalomorphae which includes the trapdoor spiders and tarantulas. "We only have one native mygalomorphae in the UK and they are much, much smaller and ...

This follows the news last year that tarantulas were confirmed in the UK by BBC researcher Adele in the form of Britain’s only species, the purseweb spider. The purseweb is a stay-at-home spider ...

Taxonomically, they are in the infraorder mygalomorphae which includes the trapdoor spiders and tarantulas. 'We only have one native mygalomorphae in the UK and they are much, much smaller and ...

‘None of our UK spiders are medically significant and the last thing a spider wants to do is bite a human hundreds of times its own size. We’re simply not on the menu and spiders don’t go ...

A SNEAKY spider that becomes "virtually invisible to predators" has been discovered. The critter is described as a "master architect", and makes an unusual white hole that scientists say is ...

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of ...