Residents who find funnel-web spiders are asked to collect them and donate them to Australian Reptile Park so they can be ...

While this quest may scare away arachnophobes, public donations of funnel-webs are critical to the mission of the Australian ...

The Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging Sydney residents to carefully collect funnel-web spiders and their ...

If you thought Australia’s spiders were scary, wait until you see the prehistoric version. Scientists have found a fossilised ...

Despite the zany ask, there is a valiant reason behind the call from The Australian Reptile Park in Sydney, New South Wales.

Australian researchers have discovered a super-sized species of trapdoor spiders found only in Queensland. The females of this rare species can live for over 20 years in the wild and grow up to ...

He said this is a "semi-regular occurrence" in Victoria when it rains more during the Australian winter. According to Walker, the spiders typically spin their "lighter than air" silks to parachute ...

Toxins produced by Australia's stinging trees bear a strong resemblance to those of spiders and scorpions, scientists have found. The findings, published in the Science Advances journal ...

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