Quick Take Achieving survival after a Redback bite once required 1 specific intervention to prevent a fatal outcome. The 0.5-inch threshold creates a classification crisis when identifying the larger ...

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 ...

One of the deadliest spiders in the world has been found in a box of grapes at a local grocery store. The redback spider, a cousin of the black widow that can kill with its venom, was found in a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Deposit Photos. You wouldn't expect a critter as tiny as a spider to instill as much fear as it does in something as ...