A man staying at a ski lodge in Tasmania, Australia had the scare of his life when he witnessed a massive huntsman spider devour a tiny possum. The man’s wife, Justine Latton shared photos of the ...

Kitchen staff called a reptile expert to identify the eight-legged stowaway they found while preparing lunches ...

Adam Latton recently returned to his ski lodge in Mount Field National Park in Tasmania and found a spider on the wall. In most places, that's pretty standard stuff but this Australia: Home to some of ...

An 18cm huntsman spider survived a 10,000 mile journey from Brisbane, Australia to Redhill in Surrey. The RSPCA came to the rescue after the enormous spider was found in a shipping container full of ...

The bravery of an Aussie man who calmly dove his car while a giant spider crawled around him has been praised by social media. The short 11-second video was shared on TikTok recently and it attracted ...

Australia proved once again it is the undisputed king of spiders after a huntsman, endearingly named Hortense, and her 100 or so children moved into a mailbox in a Victoria home. The video, which was ...

Huntsman spiders, like most spiders, are typically equipped with eight eyes. But researchers have discovered a new cave-dwelling species that ditched its peepers for a life in permanent darkness.

A large spider native to South America was found in a box of bananas in a shop in Glastonbury, Somerset. The huntsman spider was found by a colleague of Lucas Cox, a greengrocer, while she was ...

Photos of a massive spider saved by an animal rescue worker in Australia are giving the Internet a fright, with reaction on Facebook ranging from “how beautiful is she” to “it’s times like these I ...

A giant huntsman spider photographed by a Queensland animal rescuer last year is "quite normal in size" and only looks really big because of its "unusual perspective", an arachnologist says. Someone ...