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 ...

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 ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned the ...

Few creatures have earned a reputation as chilling as the Sydney funnel-web spider. Found across eastern Australia, this glossy black arachnid has venom strong enough to kill in minutes — and it’s not ...

The country’s only supplier of funnel-web venom for Australia’s antivenom program is operating at just half its usual spider ...

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 ...

(CNN) — If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away. But the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging residents of ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SYDNEY (AP) — With fangs that could pierce a ...

Venom from the deadly funnel-web spider could soon be the key to preventing damage from heart attacks and strokes, as a ...