A Colossal Arachnid Discovery In a remarkable turn of events, the largest male funnel-web spider ever recorded has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park in Somersby, New South Wales. 2 ...

The new temporary attraction with live tarantulas and lots of facts hopes to make you more curious than apprehensive.

A lot of the Silklab’s work is “bio-inspired” by spiders and silkworms, mussels and barnacles, velvet worm slime, even tropical orchids—so working out whether this sticky web could become ...

"Things like house spiders, where they have funnel-shaped webs everywhere around houses and in every nook and cranny," Mr Shoard said. "They are also black and can get quite big, so people assume ...