The "orange-legged" spider rediscovery has been hailed as "one of Britain's epic ‘lost species' rediscoveries of the century, ...

Every year, spiders kill about 20 people worldwide. That’s fewer than scorpions, lightning strikes, or hippos—and a tiny ...

You know those nightmares where you kill a spider and suddenly dozens more appear? That nightmare was real for these people. YouTube user Danny Ford wrote that he spotted the massive wolf spider ...

Wolf spiders have a reputation for being intimidating, and it’s easy to see why. They’re fast, hairy, and large enough to make anyone jump when one scurries across the floor. In Australia and the ...

Sydney — With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world's most poisonous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save ...

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 spider ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the fossilized remains of a trapdoor spider, the largest to date in the country. The fossilized spider was found near Gulgong, New South Wales, last week by a ...

An Australian zoo has been given a 3-inch long funnel web spider, which is much larger than the norm. The spider, which zoo officials are calling "Megaspider," was turned over as part of the ...