A video shared to Reddit in February 2024 genuinely showed a real, red-and-blue spider species that resembles the superhero Spider-Man. Spider scientist Sebastian Echeverri told Snopes in an email ...

QUEENSLAND, Australia -- This is sure to get your spidey-sense tingling. In what is just the latest in a long line of extraordinary Australian animal videos, a Queensland man spied a Huntsman spider ...

The video above even inspired an entire collection shared on TikTok of mashups, reposts, and theories as to whether the spider represented a genuine species. Spoiler alert: It did not. Spider ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the spider ...

An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly to humans than that of any other spider, the iconic Sydney funnel-web has ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous city, was long thought to be a single species. But it’s actually three different species ...