Related to black widows and redbacks, this endangered arachnid lives in New Zealand and delivers a potent venom dangerous to ...

Video / NZ Herald / AFP An Auckland woman was shocked to find a dead spider baked onto the bottom of her pie near a small pastry hole - but only after she took a bite. The unfortunate incident has ...

Despite being home to a whole cast of creepy crawlies, barely anyone has died from a spider bite in Australia in decades. We ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.