One of the most dangerous spiders in the world is the Australian funnel web spider. Its venom reputedly caused at least one person to die within 15 minutes of being bitten.Though we do have ...

These little spiders live in the grass or leaves below the hole in their “funnel.” When an insect flies into the satellite-dish web, the spider darts up, grabs its prey and disappears again.

King and his Institute colleague, heart disease expert Nathan Palpant, Ph.D., discovered that the Hi1a molecule from the ...

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say.

The Sydney funnel web spider (Atrax robustus) can kill a toddler in about 5 minutes and a 5-year-old in about 2 hours," Vetter told Live Science.

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

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Yikes. The Australian Reptile Park adopted a venomous funnel-web spider so big it had to be named fittingly.

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

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