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 ...

The Newcastle Big Boy is one of Australia's biggest spiders. Learn more about this venomous species and its newly-classified ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus ... giving rise to nicknames like the fiddleback spider or brown fiddler. The spider is notable for having potent necrotic venoms, meaning they ...

These spiders are named for the funnel-shaped webs they weave. They are feared in southern and eastern Australia due to their potent venom. The brown recluse spider's venom can destroy blood ...

Funnel-weaving spiders may be using webs to soundproof against manmade noise which tends to overlap with frequency range they use for communication ...

Removing a King Brown snake from its storage locker ... No one in Australia has been killed by a Sydney Funnel-web Spider ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

From land creatures like the eastern brown snake to sea dwellers like ... The creepy-crawly in question is the Sydney funnel-web spider. Named after the shape of the webs they construct, it ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...