A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus centres on the North Shore of Sydney and the Central Coast, and the ...

Learn more about the newly identified fungus that is taking over spiders and why it's similar to the Cordyceps fungi that ...

The giant arachnid will be milked as part of the reptile park's lifesaving antivenom program. A massive specimen of one of the world's most venomous spiders will have its venom extracted to save ...

The Australian Reptile Park’s antivenom program kickstarted the research after spider keeper Kane Christensen noted many spiders donated to the Park were ‘unusually large’. “The sheer size ...