Humans and other primates are particularly reactive to funnel-web venom, whereas dogs, cats and rabbits mostly shrug off the ...

King and his Institute colleague, heart disease expert Nathan Palpant, Ph.D., discovered that the Hi1a molecule from the ...

Jan. 4 (UPI) --A funnel web spider named Hercules, the largest known specimen of its kind, has been donated to the Australian Reptile Park for use in its antivenom program. The spider-- found and ...

Wildlife experts in Australia said they recently came into contact with the largest male specimen of the world's most venomous spider. Measuring 7.9 cm (3.11 inches), the arachnid named Hercules is ...

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 had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth in ...

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. Fittingly named ...