There are more than 43,000 species of spider in the world and one of them "can kill a toddler in five minutes".

Scientists in Australia have discovered a spider that they've unironically nicknamed "Big Boy." This arachnid is a larger, more venomous version of the Sydney funnel web, known to be one of the world's deadliest spiders.

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’d ever seen.

Australian scientists have newly classified a bigger species of the Sydney funnel web spider, one of the world's deadliest, saying the new species could inject more venom, in research released on Monday (January 13).

A massive new subspecies of Australia's funnel-web spider, the deadliest in the world, has been discovered by scientists in the eastern city of Newcastle.