Funnel-web spiders collected for the Sydney zoo are used to create the antivenom used to treat the spider's dangerous bite Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

No one has been killed by a funnel-web spider since the antivenom was introduced. If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away. But ...

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 had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth in ...

This is your creepy-crawly warning. Read on at your own risk. A zoo in Australia has acquired what officials there say is the largest funnel web spider they've ever seen. Measuring in at 8 centimeters ...

Hammons Holdings will assume operations of Sydney Zoo from November 3 after the family group completed its purchase of the zoo.

SYDNEY -- A giant saltwater crocodile named Elvis with an apparent affinity for household machinery charged at an Australian reptile park worker Wednesday before stealing his lawn mower. Tim Faulkner, ...

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