Spider expert Emma Teni explains why funnel-web spiders are flooding backyards right now, where to find them, and what to do ...

One of Australia's biggest cultural festivals has been left in disarray after a decision to disinvite a prominent ...

The country’s only supplier of funnel-web venom for Australia’s antivenom program is operating at just half its usual spider ...

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Thousands of firefighters on Saturday (January 10) toiled in Australia's Victoria state to get the upper hand on bushfires ...

The arachnophobes have come to a decision: jumping spiders can stay. The other spiders must leave, but jumping spiders are ...

Professor Glenn King from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience said his team had published “exceptionally promising” ...

Australian funnel-web spider venom has been used to create a drug that could save millions of lives by protecting patients' ...

The experimental treatment, called IB409, aims to protect the heart and brain during heart attacks and strokes by preventing ...

A potentially life-saving treatment for heart attacks and strokes, derived from the venom of one of the world's deadliest spiders, has entered human trials, researchers in Australia said Thursday. The ...

Venom from the deadly funnel-web spider could soon be the key to preventing damage from heart attacks and strokes, as a ...

A 3-year-old boy was found dead in a car, just hours after he was reported missing in Queensland, Australia, on Tuesday, Jan.