An international collaboration featuring the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has led to ...

Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

They said it rarely happened, but redback spider versus snake duels have been captured in Australia - twice. Farmer Neale Postlethwaite filmed a redback capturing a snake, hanging it up in a web ...

A BATTLE of Australia’s most deadly has seen a redback spider attack and kill a brown snake in the state’s north yesterday.

It explains the anatomy of spiders, including their two body parts, eight legs, and fangs used for injecting venom. The film also demonstrates how spiders spin silk to catch prey and describes ...

Photos of a venomous spider consuming an equally-venomous snake in Australia have gone viral after a woman captured the battle. Robyn McLennan, from Bright, Victoria, was visiting a winery when ...

The redback spider is not aggressive, and usually bites only when disturbed or threatened. Its venom contains a neurotoxin that can cause severe pain, muscle weakness, nausea, vomiting, and ...

A man in Two Wells, outside Adelaide, had a fully “Straya” moment in his garage recently when he came across a small eastern brown snake caught in the web of a redback spider.Kyle Andrews said he was ...

A Queensland woman has lived my worst nightmare and found probably one of the most terrifying spiders in Australia nestled in a nook between her Woolworths grapes. No fucking thanks.

Redback spider venom acts directly on the nerves, according to the University of Melbourne’s School of Biomedical Sciences. A redback’s bite can be fatal, however no deaths have been recorded ...