(CNN) — If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away. But the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging residents of ...

(CNN) — A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the ...

Funnel-web spiders collected for the Sydney zoo are used to create the antivenom used to treat the spider's dangerous bite A photo of the Australian funnel-web spider, one of the most venomous spiders ...

Australian Reptile Park spider expert Rob Porter milks a male Sydney funnel-web spider to create antivenom in 2001. Sydney Morning Herald Picture by Andrew Taylor, Fairfax Media via Getty Images It’s ...

When it comes to inventive ant species, Australia is one of a kind, and this newly discovered species that hunts by using a ...

SYDNEY, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned ...

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Funnel-web spiders collected for the Sydney zoo are used to create the antivenom used to treat the spider's dangerous bite Getty A zoo in Australia is enlisting the public's help to catch and collect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one has been killed by a funnel-web spider since the antivenom was introduced. If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider ...