Female Australian redback spiders have unique ways of controlling who fathers their offspring, Canadian researchers say. Lindsay Snow and Dr Maydianne Andrade of the University of Toronto report that ...

A woman has found a deadly, venomous spider and its egg sac lurking in a box of grapes in Australia. After buying the grapes from a Coles supermarket, New South Wales resident Natasha Thomson opened ...

A man in Kawasaki, which borders southern Tokyo, used an insecticide to kill a strange spider and three egg sacs found inside a sprinkler in his garden on Monday, authorities said. City officials ...

SOME of Australia’s most dreaded creatures are about to come out for the summer. This is what you should know ahead of time. We’re especially warned to be on the lookout for potentially deadly redback ...

Woolworths has pulled broccoli from three of their suppliers off its shelves after a redback spider lunged at a man when he was cutting up the vegetable. It’s the second time this week the deadly ...