Certain types of funnel-web spiders (Hadronyche spp., Atrax spp. and Illawarra spp.) are notorious for their strong venom ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...

1. The Sydney Funnel-Web Spider, Quite Possibly The Deadliest Spider In The World The Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) is arguably the most dangerous spider in the world, owing to its ...

Kirsty Bryant lived the worst day of her life when one Friday morning her 11-month-old son, Henry, was bitten by a deadly ...

She had walked into her lounge room and saw her two-year-old son Tommy holding a funnel web spider — which she believes hitched a ride inside on the plastic Christmas tree recently brought in from the ...

One of the world’s deadliest spiders could hold the key to saving the lives of people who’ve had heart attacks, according to research by Australian scientists.

When Sydney mum Emma Sheil found her two-year-old son Tommy in front of the Christmas tree holding a giant funnel web spider ...

Few creatures on Australia’s east coast post as great a risk to gardeners as Sydney’s funnel-web spider. Costa meets a funnel-web researcher to learn how best to live in harmony with them.

Capturing funnel-web egg sacs, in particular, is indispensable to the initiative. Producing a vial of antivenom requires nearly 150 spiders, and each egg sac can carry 50 to 150 spiderlings.