An Australian company has created a significant evolution of the construction industry in the form of Charlotte, a ...

Native to Australia, redbacks are small venomous spiders, and their males are unusual even within the widow spider family.

Certain spiders eat their mates after mating. The males of an Australian species reduce this risk by performing a special ...

Male redback spiders perform a bizarre backflip into female fangs during mating. Scientists have now linked the behaviour to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in Australia have discovered the fossilized remains of a trapdoor spider, the largest to date in the country. The ...

The largest male specimen of the world's most venomous arachnid, the Sydney funnel-web spider, has been relocated to the Australian Reptile Park. The spider will contribute to the reptile park’s ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous city, was long thought to be a single species. But it’s actually three different species ...

The spiders can live for up to 20 years in the wild, are hard to spot despite their size, and have been found near regional farming towns in Australia Scientists in the Australian state of Queensland ...

A team of researchers at Macquarie University, in Australia, working with two colleagues from Universität Hamburg, in Germany, has uncovered the means by which the Australian ant-slayer spider is able ...

Australian Reptile Park spider expert Rob Porter milks a male Sydney funnel-web spider to create antivenom in 2001. Sydney Morning Herald Picture by Andrew Taylor, Fairfax Media via Getty Images It’s ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the fossilized remains of a trapdoor spider, the largest to date in the country. The fossilized spider was found near Gulgong, New South Wales, last week by a ...