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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia has a reputation for venomous wildlife, particularly spiders. A good part of that reputation comes from the deadly ...

Measuring at 9.2cm from foot to foot, ‘Hemsworth’ the male funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) is the largest of its kind recorded by the Australian Reptile Park. A ginormous and deadly funnel-web ...

Researchers have discovered that one of Australia's largest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, and one of them is bigger than the rest. Sydney funnel-web spiders (Atrax ...

Australian Reptile Park spider expert Rob Porter milks a male Sydney funnel-web spider to create antivenom in 2001. Sydney Morning Herald Picture by Andrew Taylor, Fairfax Media via Getty Images It’s ...

The largest male specimen of the world's most venomous arachnid, the Sydney funnel-web spider, has been relocated to the Australian Reptile Park. The spider will contribute to the reptile park’s ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous city, was long thought to be a single species. But it’s actually three different species ...

The male Sydney funnel-web spider is the world’s most venomous, but no deaths have occurred since the Australian Reptile Park’s antivenom programme began in 1981. The programme houses over 2,000 ...

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. A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider ...

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, the spider ...