While they may incite fear due to their impressive dimensions, these spiders play crucial roles in their ecosystems and have become subjects of significant scientific interest and study.

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

Australia's reputation for venomous spiders comes partly from the deadly Sydney funnel-web. It turns out there is not just one species, there are three.

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider is the most venomous in the world. This scientists already knew since it has 13 people have been ...

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’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth ...

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say.

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...

They say good things come in threes—but is that true even for the most venomous spider in the world? Scientists in ... “Big Boy” since it is the largest of the three species.