She added: "Not to be messed with." The Australian Museum explains that mouse spiders are often confused with funnel-web spiders. The main differences between the two species are that the funnel ...

Australia is home to a diverse range of spiders ... according to the museum. Mouse spiders also have venom that can be as potent as some funnel-webs, although no deaths have been attributed ...

Also found in Australia is the red-headed mouse spider (Missulena occatoria) whose dramatic red, blue, and black coloration is only observed in males. The two sexes are so dramatically different ...

Funnel-web and mouse spiders are able to survive underwater by trapping an air bubble to the hairs on their underside, Helen Smith, the arachnology collection manager at the Australian Museum ...

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 ...

Insects commonly fall into pools by accident, according to the Australian Museum. “Wandering (mouse and) funnel-web spiders often fall into backyard swimming pools and they can stay alive for ...

NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia – A reptile park in Australia is warning residents to keep their eyes peeled for a large, deadly spider species as summer approaches. The funnel-web spider is one of ...

In Australia, unique species abound – from koalas and kangaroos to wombats and emus. Now, the western laughing frog and a spider named ... which resembles a mouse but is, in fact, a marsupial.

The deadly Sydney funnel-web spider dubbed "Hercules" was found on the Central Coast, about 50 miles north of Sydney, and was initially given to a local hospital, the Australian Reptile Park said ...