Australia is known for its deadly creatures of unusual size. From the saltwater crocodile to the box jellyfish and even the ...

They're often brightly colored and build beautiful webs of concentric circles and radiating lines. Funnel weaver spiders. Usually brown or gray in color, they have stripes near the head and a ...

While the quickest recorded death from a Sydney funnel-web spider was a toddler at 13 minutes, the average is closer to 76 ...

Removing a King Brown snake from its storage locker ... No one in Australia has been killed by a Sydney Funnel-web Spider since 1981 when the antivenom programme started [BBC] This venom gets ...

Movies about creepy crawlers, like shark films, have carved out their own horror subgenre — scientific accuracy aside. ‘Sting ...

Removing a King Brown snake from its storage locker ... because they are larger animals with a strong immune system. The venom of Sydney funnel-web spiders goes into rabbits, which are immune to the ...