One of the largest is the whistling spider or Australian tarantula, which goes by several names: barking spider, bird-eating tarantula, and Queensland whistling tarantula, which refer to the ...

A team of scientists led by The University of Western Australia has discovered two new species of trapdoor spiders in the ...

The new spider, named Kwonkan nemoralis, was found during an expedition to Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region.

People are far too eager to talk smack on Australia's ... their prey—mostly spiders, snails, and insects, though they will snack on small mammals, reptiles, and even birds if the opportunity ...

A beloved Australian bird best known for its stunning tail and ... habitats suitable for their diet of worms, centipedes and spiders. They fenced lyrebirds out from small areas throughout the ...

A beloved Australian bird best known for its stunning tail and ... habitats suitable for their diet of worms, centipedes and spiders. In a new paper published in the Journal of Animal Ecology ...