Just weeks before his first birthday, Kirsty Bryant's son Henry was bitten by a deadly funnel-web spider inside their northern NSW home. Not long after, he stopped breathing.

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 ...

The researchers found that funnel-weaving spiders alter how their silk webs transmit vibrations in response to local noise.

Europe's largest spider has been found in England after travelled over from Spain in a shipment of olives. The Spanish funnel-web spider, revealed to be a female by its new owner, was spotted in a ...

Love them or hate them, it would seem spiders are definitely getting bigger and braver. Just take a look at the Spanish funnel-web spider, which was discovered at a nursery in West Sussex ...

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 appetite", was spotted by ...

A nursery owner was in for a surprise when a large venomous spider with a “huge appetite” arrived with his delivery of olives. The Spanish funnel-web spider, which is thought to be Europe’s ...

One of Europe’s largest spiders was spotted in a delivery of olives from Spain this week, startling a nursery owner. The Spanish funnel-web spider is a venomous species with a ‘huge appetite ...

Large numbers of spiders are entering Oxfordshire homes as Europe’s largest spider was found at a nursery. The Spanish funnel-web spider, which is thought to be Europe’s largest, was spotted ...