A team of experts and citizen scientists have pulled off a rare, and potentially Australia-first, relocation operation of spiders in southern Western Australia. A team of volunteers has worked to ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...

A man with a "serious fear" of spiders prompted an emergency call by Western Australia police on New Years' Day. According to police, a passerby raised the alarm after hearing a "screaming ...

Rising above a tall karri eucalypt forest, the granite domes of Western Australia’s Porongurup Range National ... These are the homes of the Porongurup trapdoor (Cataxia sp.), a shy brown spider that ...

It’s a large spider that’s found right across Australia, apart from Tasmania and the far north of the mainland but is most often encountered in New South Wales and Western Australia. The reassuring ...

The discovery of a massive nest of huntsman spiders on the south coast of Western Australia may be an arachnophobe's idea of hell, but it's also providing researchers with a rare insight into how the ...

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 ...

Emma Teni with Hemsworth the funnel-web spider The Australian Reptile Park encourages the public to safely catch funnel-web spiders for their antivenom program, which is estimated to save up to ...

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen.