Queensland researchers have developed a revolutionary drug called IB409, made using funnel web spider venom, that works by ...

Mark Smythe says funnel-web venom is being trialled on patients to treat heart attacks and stroke. Footage supplied by ...

A potential breakthrough treatment derived from the venom of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has taken a major step toward human trials after securing $23 million in funding for a Brisbane-based ...

Australian funnel-web spider venom has been used to create a drug that could save millions of lives by protecting patients' ...

Venom from the deadly funnel-web spider could soon be the key to preventing damage from heart attacks and strokes, as a ...

The experimental treatment, called IB409, aims to protect the heart and brain during heart attacks and strokes by preventing ...

Australian funnel-web spiders, a group of poisonous spiders that live in Australia, are known to have deadly venom for primates, and there have been reports of fatalities in humans who have been ...

The largest male specimen yet of the most venomous spider in the world has been found in Australia. "Hercules," a funnel-web spider, is 3.1 inches (7.9 centimeters) from hairy foot to hairy foot, ...

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 ...

Jan. 4 (UPI) --A funnel web spider named Hercules, the largest known specimen of its kind, has been donated to the Australian Reptile Park for use in its antivenom program. The spider-- found and ...

An Australian spider enthusiast, Kane Christensen, has been part of a groundbreaking discovery with the identification of a new species of funnel-web spider. The new species, named Atrax christenseni, ...

Funnel Web spider numbers are set to soar over summer prompting an urgent warning for Australians to stay on the lookout. The Australian Reptile Park said 'perfect' weather wet and humid weather ...