They weave their webs to catch prey and attract mates ... as small as a hundred nanometers—1/1000 the width of a human hair. Spiders have succeeded evolutionarily. The inherent variability ...

Though a bite from one of these creatures is certainly capable of killing a human, no deaths have been reported from a funnel web spider in Australia since 1980. Not in any dangerous way.

This is how microphones work: by mimicking the human ear and vibrating in response to pressure. Spider webs serve a similar purpose but use a different mechanism. A spider moves its body in ...

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian ... its fangs could pierce and deliver their lethal venom through a human fingernail, zoo keepers said.

DANIEL: The conical web is now spring-loaded ... DANIEL: In other words, inviting the spider-verse to improve the human-verse. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel.

You might notice their webs out in nature ... venom isn’t strong enough to endanger a creature as large as a human. A spider bite looks a lot like other bug bites, as well as some bacterial ...

The spider is so large, its fangs could pierce and deliver their lethal venom through a human fingernail, zoo keepers said. Sydney funnel-web spiders (Atrax robustus) are some of the most venomous ...