The Australian Reptile Park has issued an urgent warning that the long-lasting effects of COVID-19 lockdowns are still being ...

Then, to those many alert Col8ers who asked, no, C8’s talk about spiders (drinks) had nothing to with Good Food’s Tuesday story about sparkling wine spiders, at least not from this side of the ...

The country’s only supplier of funnel-web venom for Australia’s antivenom program is operating at just half its usual spider ...

While crocodile attacks are extremely rare on humans in Australia, or anywhere, they do happen. In 2024, there were three ...

Venom from a spider found on K'gari, formerly known as Fraser Island, has been used to develop a drug that prevents damage ...

Mark Smythe says funnel-web venom is being trialled on patients to treat heart attacks and stroke. Footage supplied by ...

Professor Glenn King from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience said his team had published “exceptionally promising” ...

In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

A potential breakthrough treatment derived from the venom of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has taken a major step ...

The experimental treatment, called IB409, aims to protect the heart and brain during heart attacks and strokes by preventing ...

SYDNEY, Jan. 8 (Xinhua/APP): A potentially life-saving treatment for heart attacks and strokes, derived from the venom of one of the world’s deadliest spiders, has entered human trials, researchers in ...

Queensland researchers have developed a revolutionary drug called IB409, made using funnel web spider venom, that works by ...