One of the largest wolf spiders is the Carolina wolf spider ... wolf spiders are numerous and can be found all over the United States, usually in forests, grasslands, and swamps.

From the same zoo in Australia that gave us giant spiders Hercules and Colossus comes an arachnid that is ... even bigger. The Australian Reptile Park recently recorded its largest male funnel-web ...

The Goliath birdeater spider, native to South America's rainforests ... Its venom isn't highly toxic to us, so, to protect itself, it employs unique defensive tactics. Rather than inject venom when ...

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen.