Nature lover Robyn McLennan stumbled upon a frightening sight while taking pictures at a winery in Victoria, Australia, last week: a highly venomous redback spider taking on a deadly eastern brown ...

A few years ago, the owner of a house in Georgia captured an epic battle between a brown widow spider and a brown snake. Black widows are widely known as one of the most dangerous on Earth, but in ...

In a David and Goliath-style clash between two of Australia’s most venomous beasties, a redback spider rose triumphant over a much larger eastern brown snake – a critter that can kill a human in just ...

Researchers in Brazil detailed the first documented case of a spider found killing and eating a snake in the wild. A study published in the journal Herpetology Notes details what Leandro Malta Borges, ...

For the first time, researchers have documented a giant spider eating an opossum in the Amazon rainforest. Writing in the February 28th issue of the journal Amphibian & Reptile Conservation, a team of ...