A Spanish funnel-web spider (Macrothele calpeiana), recognized as Europe’s largest spider, has made an unexpected journey to ...

British Arachnological Society classified the species as Europe's largest back in 1989, but that hasn't fazed Jack Casson, a ...

A pilot with a severe allergy to spiders was bitten mid-flight by a ... Iberia Airbus A320 flying from Düsseldorf, Germany, to the Spanish capital, Madrid, on Friday when he suffered a severe ...

A nursery owner in West Sussex got a shock after an eight-legged stowaway was found on a shipment of olives from Cordoba, ...

The Spanish funnel-web spider is a venomous species with a ‘huge appetite’, and surprisingly made an appearance in West ...

The spider has since been taken in by enthusiast Jack Casson from Hartlepool, whose girlfriend named her Bessie.

EUROPE’s biggest species of spider has arrived in Britain, with the venomous funnel-web creature spotted in a nursery yard. The terrifying stowaway, said to have a “huge ...

As Europe’s biggest ever spider arrives in the UK in a batch of olives from Cordoba in southern Spain, we take a look at the ...

N ew species are all around us, hiding under the waves, hidden in jungles, or maybe even lurking in a cave. In an impressive ...

A pilot on an Iberia Airlines flight to Madrid was bitten by a spider mid-flight. The crew members suspect it was a tarantula ...

The arachnid in question is a Macrothele calpeiana, or Spanish funnel-web spider, and gave folks quite a fright when they saw ...