The deadly Sydney funnel-web spider dubbed “Hercules” was found on the Central Coast, about 50 miles north of Sydney, and was initially given to a local hospital, the Australian Reptile Park ...

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The Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging Sydney residents to carefully collect funnel-web spiders and their eggs so they can be used to make life-saving antivenom.

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.

If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away. But the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging residents of nearby ...

If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away. But the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging residents of nearby ...