If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

With the death of a student last year after a spider bite, it is good to know what action you should take if you are bitten.

Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

The brown widow spider (Latrodectus geometricus) is a lesser-known relative of the infamous black widow. The first brown widow spider was discovered in Los Angeles in early 2000. A member of the ...

Manhas introduced a huge swathe of classic Marvel villains. The animated series expands Spider-Man’s mythos, focusing on ...

The first occurrence of a dangerous spider known as the Black Widow has been confirmed in Slovakia. The adult female arrived in Slovakia from California in a shipment of machine parts goods. She also ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of an antivenom in 1981, despite the 30 to 40 recorded funnel-web bites every ...