If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

Call emergency medical services immediately if the person with the spider bite has the following symptoms: 6. Monitor the ...

The bite from a brown recluse can be serious, but that doesn't mean it's always life-threatening. This is what to do if you're bitten.

Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

The Goliath birdeater doesn't just it birds. It also eats small rodents, frogs and insects. Milan Zygmunt / Shutterstock ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of an antivenom in 1981, despite the 30 to 40 recorded funnel-web bites every ...