While they may incite fear due to their impressive dimensions, these spiders play crucial roles in their ecosystems and have become subjects of significant scientific interest and study.

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

The Sydney funnel-web spider is the most venomous in the world. This scientists already knew since it has 13 people have been ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...

Well, except maybe that's not quite true. A new, in-depth study of the spider has discovered that what we thought was one species is actually three. That means there are two new species of the world's ...

Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in ...

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...

The study marks a major shift in understanding the Sydney funnel-web spider, with each newly identified species occupying ...