A clinical trial is set to test whether a protein from the venom of the K’gari funnel web spider can protect hearts during heart attacks and organ donation. Reading time 2 minutes Our ailing hearts ...

One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest. Sydney funnel-web spiders ...

There are big spiders, and then there’s the Newcastle ‘Big Boy.’ First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the largest type of funnel-web spider found in Australia. Confusion over the Big Boy ...