Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Milking ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider's venom is exceedingly dangerous. Its neurotoxic effects attack the human body, and can kill a person in just 15 minutes. It is capable of piercing its large fangs through ...

One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest. Sydney funnel-web spiders ...

The Australian Reptile Park relies on donated funnel-web spiders to maintain its breeding population and ensure it has enough mature male spiders to continue producing enough venom to supply the ...

The largest male specimen of the world’s most poisonous arachnid has been found by a member of the public in Australia. Experts from Australian Reptile Park retrieved it and soon realised the ...

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 ...

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 ...