Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say.

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’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth ...

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The Australian Reptile Park has received its biggest funnel-web spider at a drop-off location in Newcastle. Hemsworth, who has been named after the Aussie brothers, measures in at 9.2 centimetres ...

This film by Sally Aitken follows a hummingbird rescue center and the woman who tends to its denizens with immense care. By Alissa Wilkinson Lean, fast and furious action movies may look simple on ...

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