which has the largest collection of funnel-web spiders in the world. The scientists closely observed the specimens under a microscope and analyzed their genetics. This revealed that the Sydney ...

The Goliath birdeater doesn't just it birds. It also eats small rodents, frogs and insects. Milan Zygmunt / Shutterstock ...

They say good things come in threes—but is that true even for the most venomous spider in the world? Scientists in ... “Big Boy” since it is the largest of the three species.

From the same zoo in Australia that gave us giant spiders Hercules and Colossus comes an arachnid that is ... even bigger. The Australian Reptile Park recently recorded its largest male funnel-web ...

The Sydney funnel-back spider has held the title of world’s most venomous spider ... to new research from BMC Ecology and Evolution, the biggest of these spiders, the aforementioned ‘big ...

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.

The Goliath birdeater spider, native to South America's rainforests, is the biggest spider in the world, with a leg span reaching up to 12 inches (31 cm). The giant huntsman spider, found in Laos ...