The tropo-climes of South America are home to many unusual animals. In fact, for arachnophiles the northern part of the continent contains some incredible rainforests worth visiting. In South America, ...

In images that are sure to strike fear into any arachnophobe, a vast communal web that plays host to more than 100,000 ...

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 had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth in ...

One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest. Sydney funnel-web spiders ...

The Oceania region is home to over 20 tarantula species, most of which belong to the Selenocosmiinae sub-family of tarantulas ...