The Goliath birdeater spider, native to South America's rainforests, is the biggest spider in the world, with a leg span reaching up to 12 inches (31 cm). The giant huntsman spider, found in Laos, ...

The Goliath birdeater doesn't just it birds. It also eats small rodents, frogs and insects. Milan Zygmunt / Shutterstock ...

which has the largest collection of funnel-web spiders in the world. The scientists closely observed the specimens under a microscope and analyzed their genetics. This revealed that the Sydney ...

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 ...

They say good things come in threes—but is that true even for the most venomous spider in the world? Scientists in ... “Big Boy” since it is the largest of the three species.

Emma Teni with Hemsworth the funnel-web. The biggest male funnel web spider in history has been handed into the Australian Reptile Park measuring at 9.2cm from foot to foot. PICTURE: Supplied ...

A new, in-depth study of the spider has discovered that what we thought was one species is actually three. That means there are two new species of the world's most venomous spider ... specimens found ...

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest ... funnel-web, the largest and most formidable of the three. The bigger the spider, the bigger its bite, said ...

From the same zoo in Australia that gave us giant spiders Hercules and Colossus comes an arachnid that is ... even bigger. The Australian Reptile Park recently recorded its largest male funnel-web ...

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen.