They are covered in large overlapping scales and have a short, thick tail. Some of the other names they’ve attracted across ...

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.

This study was carried out at 18 sites across the Marna Banggara Rewilding Project area on Australia's southern Yorke Peninsula, where over 90% of the native mammals are now extinct. The work is ...

The Australian Reptile Park has received its biggest funnel-web spider at a drop-off location in Newcastle. Hemsworth, who has been named after the Aussie brothers, measures in at 9.2 centimetres ...

A number of animals, plants and an entire ecosystem were added to Australia's extinction watch list in 2024. We look at the ...

Other genetic solutions are in development. Tadpole cannibalism has inspired a team at Macquarie University to engineer ...

A mammoth male Sydney funnel-web spider, who has been named Hemsworth after brothers and actors Chris, Luke and Liam Hemsworth, has been collected by the Australian Reptile Park. Measuring in at 9 ...

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.