Spiders get a lot of credit for being neat. With their perfect little webs, strung delicately, repaired fastidiously, they ...

Female Australian redback spiders have unique ways of controlling who fathers their offspring, Canadian researchers say. Lindsay Snow and Dr Maydianne Andrade of the University of Toronto report ...

Anna Salleh ABC Science Online Thursday, 26 May 2005 A female redback spider (centre) is courted by one male (lower right) while a cannibalised previous mate lies dead in the web (centre left ...

Redbacks are often found in Melbourne's leafy suburbs. Photo: 7 News "Each female lays 250 eggs, so at one time you'll see 250 little spiders around the web." ...

Australian Reptile Park, located near Sydney, Australia, shared on social media that it needs deadly funnel-web spiders and their eggs for its “life-saving antivenom program,” which uses the ...

Redback venom does its action right on the spot — it doesn’t go off to the heart or anything. But somehow, 13 deaths have occurred from a redback bite, so it can kill and does kill.