A reptile park in Australia is celebrating after receiving its biggest ever male funnel-web spider. Big Boy, a Sydney funnel-web spider, measures three inches (7.5cm) in length. It is the deadliest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists discover new ‘unusually large’ species of one of world’s deadliest spiders Scientists in Australia say a group of ...

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its own right. Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different ...

Almost every Australian is taught, from a very young age, to be cautious around the funnel-web spider. These large, black, aggressive arachnids can be found along the eastern coast of the continent, ...