The northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus) and the southern muriqui (B. arachnoides) are the two species of the largest ...

Black widow spiders live in cool, dark places. What to know in Mississippi to keep them away from your home, avoid a bite.

You may have heard the most dangerous spider in the world is the Sydney funnel-web spider, but you may not know how many people it kills per year.

The Australian Reptile Park is calling on Aussies to collect and donate funnel-web spiders and egg sacs to help produce ...

San Jose resident Paulina Goff Stovall began her career as a professional pumpkin carver at age 18, just out of high school, when she carved a 600-pound pumpkin in the shape of a funnel web spider for ...

Scientists in Australia studying the venom of funnel-web spiders found a compound that hijacks the nervous system, preventing a key signal from transmitting to cells. They found that this compound can ...

Among Australia’s diverse and often dangerous wildlife, few creatures evoke as much fear as the funnel-web spider. Known scientifically as members of the Atracidae family, these arachnids have earned ...

An international research team led by Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the Joint FAO/IAEA Center of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture has identified the gene responsible for a ...

Have you ever been bitten by a spider? If so, did you know how to handle the wound properly? This scenario is particularly dangerous in Australia because of the Sydney funnel-web spider. This arachnid ...