A massive funnel-web spider with fangs capable of piercing human fingernails has been donated to an antivenom program in Australia, sparking an appea ...

Kirsty Bryant lived the worst day of her life when one Friday morning her 11-month-old son, Henry, was bitten by a deadly ...

When Sydney mum Emma Sheil found her two-year-old son Tommy in front of the Christmas tree holding a giant funnel web spider ...

and he said to me, 'Do you have a first aid kit? We need to treat this like a funnel-web spider bite'." The responder was Jordan Keen, a NSW Ambulance call centre trainee, who answered the call.

She had walked into her lounge room and saw her two-year-old son Tommy holding a funnel web spider — which she believes hitched a ride inside on the plastic Christmas tree recently brought in from the ...

The funnel web spider Tommy found ... being kept alive by doses of adrenaline for almost two hours before the anti-venom arrived. He has since made a full recovery and Ms Shiel is urging ...

A Sydney couple is grateful for their very own Christmas miracle after their two-year-old son survived a bite from a deadly funnel web spider that was hiding in their plastic tree. The highly ...