In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...