But the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging residents of nearby Sydney to suppress that fear, remain calm, and carefully collect both the spider and her eggs in a secure container ...

This deadly Sydney funnel-web spider was first discovered on the Central Coast, nearly 80km north of Sydney, and was initially admitted in a local hospital, said the Australian Reptile Park ...

The Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging Sydney residents to carefully collect funnel-web spiders and their eggs so they can be used to make life-saving antivenom.

The rainy weather and rising temperatures of springtime spark the start of the Greater Sydney region’s funnel-web spider season, sending male spiders scurrying across the land search of mates.

With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world's most poisonous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save lives ...

They’re the most dangerous spider species in the Sydney area – before the antivenom was introduced in 1981, on record, 13 people have died as a result of their bites. While nobody has died ...

(CNN) — If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away. But the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging residents ...