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Josephine Piper of Miranda tells, “Years ago, travelling on a post bus in the Swiss Alps, the driver stopped to allow us to enjoy the view. ‘I have a cousin [in] Australia, where are you from?’ he ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider delivers venom that attacks the nervous system within minutes, though its toxins are now helping ...

Sydney Sweeney's newest movie, The Housemaid, is officially faring better than her disastrous superhero movie, Madame Web, at the box office.

Scientists in Australia have discovered a spider that they've unironically nicknamed "Big Boy." This arachnid is a larger, more venomous version of the Sydney funnel web, known to be one of the ...

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say. When you ...

(CNN) — If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away. But the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales is urging residents of ...

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Another day, another Sydney Sweeney casting rumor, and this time the highly in-demand young Anyone But You star is said to have been offered the chance to play a character she has been fan-cast as for ...