Dubbed "Big boy'" the impressive spider can grow up to 3.54 inches (9cm) compared with 1.97 inches (5cm) for the more common Sydney funnel-web ...

On the other hand, females are bright yellow-orange with black stripes ... that it catches in its web. The common and distinctive black and yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia), commonly ...

Sydney funnel-web spiders (Atrax robustus) are glossy black in color and grow to 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) long. The iconic arachnids are also among the most venomous spiders to humans.

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen.

They saw that female spotted coin spiders (Herennia multipuncta)—flat-bodied inhabitants of tree trunks throughout Southeast Asia—display two pairs of bright orange ... Experts from the Women’s Brain ...