Many people are scared of spiders, and that's for understandable reasons. After all, no one would want to come upon this huge ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the spiders' tiny muscles to support.

It takes between 150 and 200 venom extractions to produce a single vial of antivenom. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The huge spider has dubbed “big boy” and are said to release “copious amounts of venom". The male species is most poisonous. Funnel-web spiders are renowned for their toxicity - and many are ...