Finding a spider in a pair of shoes, a laundry basket, or in a closet is never a pleasant experience. As Australia is famous for its diverse creatures and its frightening spiders, people that live in ...

Every spider can spin silk; it’s one of the defining characteristics of the order Araneae, alongside venomous fangs, two-part ...

One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest. Sydney funnel-web spiders ...

Deep within the rainforests of Panama lives a mysterious funnel web spider so secretive it had never been filmed in the wild until now. Closely related to the infamous Australian funnel web ...

If you're going for a stroll in eastern Australia, there's one spider you don't want to come across: the Sydney funnel-web spider, otherwise known as the world's deadliest spider. The venom of this ...

Queensland researchers have developed a revolutionary drug called IB409, made using funnel web spider venom, that works by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SYDNEY (AP) — With fangs that could pierce a ...

Scientists in Australia studying the venom of funnel-web spiders found a compound that hijacks the nervous system, preventing a key signal from transmitting to cells. They found that this compound can ...

What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

For many people, the sight — or even the thought — of a spider in a spider web gives them the chills. Even without full-on arachnophobia, the prospect of bumping into a spider web in your yard or ...