Millions of Australians are being warned to look out for the world's most venomous spider as wet weather season begins. Funnel-web spiders are a regular cause for concern in NSW, but the ...

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 ...

Sometimes called open-hole trapdoor spiders and ... A very different shape to a funnel-web spider. They are hairy, much slenderer and generally a lighter colour. They have a pair of eyes that ...

Due to the slow season, the park needs more male funnel-web spiders whose venom is essential for antivenom production. Spider keeper Emma Teni said the zoo needs the public’s help “now more ...

Professor Glenn King with a live female funnel web spider in this lab at the University of Queensland. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian Discovered in 2016, the molecule in the venom of ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...

Picture: Supplied Australian Reptile Park seeking funnel web spider donations. Picture: Supplied Spider keeper Emma Teni said the zoo needed the public’s help “now more than ever”.