If one of the biggest spiders in the world decided to camp out on our leg, we might just have to amputate it (#noregrets).

Probably the biggest spider in Africa (and native to Tanzania and Kenya), the King Baboon is so named because the color and texture of the tips of its legs are said to resemble a baboon’s fingers. The ...

Europe’s biggest spider spotted in UK - you won't believe how big it is The spider has since been taken in by enthusiast Jack Casson from Hartlepool, whose girlfriend named her Bessie.

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. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the ...

The Goliath birdeater, found in South America, is the largest spider in the world. Even though the spider can be scary when spotted, its venom isn't lethal to humans.

The spider has now been taken in by Jack Casson, a spider enthusiast from Hartlepool. It 'has for some time been considered to be Europe's largest spider' according to a 1989 description of the ...

SPIDERS are the stuff of nightmares for people with arachnophobia. There is more than one type of spider that can be found in the UK, and most of them are harmless to humans. Here’s what we k… ...

EUROPE’s biggest species of spider has arrived in Britain, with the venomous funnel-web creature spotted in a nursery yard. The terrifying stowaway, said to have a “huge appetite”… ...

Rain spiders are a type of Huntsman, and are the second largest spider species in South Africa which grow to roughly 10 cm. Steve said: "They actively hunt prey so we often see them in and around ...

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. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the ...