For 30 years, London Zoo has been doing its best to change minds with its Friendly Spider Programme (“No animals, photographs or illustrations are used until the end part of the course”). This ...

and many people's first instinct upon seeing a spider is to run away or kill it. But that bad rep is mostly due to how they look, rather than how they behave — in fact, once you learn the ...

The redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti) is one of Australia's most iconic arachnids. It's a member of the widow spider family, closely related to the black widow spider. They're famous for their ...

The world's most venomous spider is a frightening creature that's killed 13 people, with experts warning that it could "kill a toddler in five minutes". Of the staggering 43,000 venomous spider ...

The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.