Australian Museum's arachnology expert Dr Mike Grey takes a closer look at the Goliath Bird-Eating spider, a member of the Tarantula family, the world's largest in Sydney 20 November.

The Goliath bird-eating tarantula is, as its name suggests, large enough to eat a bird. Tarantulas are among the deadliest predators. The fangs hold the prey and inject venom. Their mouth is designed ...

Imagine a spider as big as a child's forearm that weighs as much as a puppy. That's how huge the South American Goliath birdeater — arguably the world's largest spider — can be.

For the past day, people around the world – at least the ones who can get past a certain spider video without screaming “kill it with fire!” – have been engaged in a rigorou… ...

An amazing image of a mammoth spider devouring a bird was taken in the backyard of a property near Cairns, Australia. The image, which is being cirulated via e-mail worldwide, is real, according to… ...

The scientist who collected a Goliath Bird-eating Spider (Theraphosa blondi) for research at the Smithsonian Institution is receiving death threats. Source: Getty ...

ATHERON, Australia, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Photographs of a large spider in Australia eating a dead bird suspended in its web are intriguing, scientists say. Experts say the images taken in Atheron ...

The photos show the spider clenching its legs around a lifeless bird trapped in a web. Joel Shakespeare, the head spider keeper at NSW's Australian Reptile Park, told ninemsn that the spider was a ...