The spider measured 7.9 cm (3.1 inches) from foot to foot, surpassing the park’s previous record-holder from 2018, the male funnel-web named “Colossus”. Sydney funnel-web spiders usually ...

World-first Australian research is using funnel-web spider venom to protect the heart during heart attacks. The University of Queensland researchers have been granted $17m of federal government ...

SYDNEY (AP) — With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world’s most venomous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will ...

The muscles then start to twitch violently and the victim begins to sweat profusely, not unlike the Aussie male when deprived ... die from Sydney funnel-web spider bites. However, the very young ...

1. The Sydney Funnel-Web Spider, Quite Possibly The Deadliest Spider In The World The Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) is arguably the most dangerous spider in the world, owing to its ...

Researchers from the University of Queensland developed a breakthrough drug inspired by funnel-web funnel-web spider venom for heart attack patients. Added10 days ago Two people escape from ...

The national research project is being run in collaboration with Australian bioscience company Infensa, the Latin word for funnel-web spider. Infensa’s role will be to take the drug to market.