The arachnophobes have come to a decision: jumping spiders can stay. The other spiders must leave, but jumping spiders are ...

Some spiders build delicate little nets, others colossal web megacities, and now some in Peru and the Philippines have been ...

Queensland researchers have developed a revolutionary drug called IB409, made using funnel web spider venom, that works by ...

Venom from a spider found on K'gari, formerly known as Fraser Island, has been used to develop a drug that prevents damage ...

Mark Smythe says funnel-web venom is being trialled on patients to treat heart attacks and stroke. Footage supplied by ...

The experimental treatment, called IB409, aims to protect the heart and brain during heart attacks and strokes by preventing ...

Venom from the deadly funnel-web spider could soon be the key to preventing damage from heart attacks and strokes, as a ...

On this episode of Breaking Trail, Coyote takes in a Sydney Funnel Web Spider for venom extraction! In Australia, there is ...

Professor Glenn King from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience said his team had published “exceptionally promising” ...

SYDNEY, Jan. 8 (Xinhua/APP): A potentially life-saving treatment for heart attacks and strokes, derived from the venom of one of the world’s deadliest spiders, has entered human trials, researchers in ...

While killing them might calm your nerves, Sam said it's unnecessary as huntsman spiders very rarely pose a threat to humans.

Professor Nathan Palpant, Professor Mark Smythe and Professor Glenn King.(Photo credit: The University of Queensland. ) A ...