Most people find spiders terrifying no matter their size. The Goliath Birdeater, the biggest spider in the world, will most definitely give anyone the creeps. Image by Krysztof Niewolny via unsplash ...

The Goliath birdeater spider, native to South America's rainforests, is the biggest spider in the world, with a leg span reaching up to 12 inches (31 cm). The giant huntsman spider, found in Laos, ...

The Goliath birdeater spider, native to South America's rainforests, is the biggest spider in the world, with a leg span reaching up to 12 inches (31 cm). The giant huntsman spider, found in Laos ...

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

While its size is slightly larger than other funnel-webs, that’s still petite compared to the largest spider in the world, the 28-centimeter, the goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blonde).

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 had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth ...