Australia residents should take notice when they appear, as the Sydney funnel-web spider is one of the most venomous spiders in the world. An untreated bite can kill a person within an hour.

A man with a "serious fear" of spiders prompted an emergency call by Western Australia police on New Years' Day. According to police, a passerby raised the alarm after hearing a "screaming ...

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However, there is a valiant reason behind the ask from The Australian Reptile Park in Sydney, New South Wales. They are urging Sydneysiders to help catch funnel-web spiders and their egg sacs to ...

Knowing what to do and what to avoid when bitten by a snake or spider can help save a life. Here’s the expert advice on how to respond whether you suffer a venomous or non-venomous bite.

First fires, now floods - it's been a terrible year for Australia's wildlife and livestock that are now trying to survive the rainfall pummelling New South Wales. Reports of spiders swarming by ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

An Australian town has been blanketed in webs after millions of baby spiders fell from the sky in a form of migration known as "ballooning". Residents of Goulburn, New South Wales, tweeted that ...

While nobody has died since, each November, the Australian Reptile Park issues a callout to residents to collect the spiders and their eggs if they find them in public and donate them to the park.

Funnel-web spiders collected for the Sydney zoo are used to create the antivenom used to treat the spider's dangerous bite A zoo in Australia is enlisting the public's help to catch and collect ...