A rare funnel- web spider has been discovered in Co Antrim.

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Scientists in Australia suspect they've found a new, giant species of the deadly funnel- web spider which hides in trees in New South Wales.

We show that the funnel- web spider, Hololena curta, has 3 adaptations that minimize risk to males during courtship and mating, and enhance reproductive success.

Female nursery web spiders build a special web where they tend their young.

It's not sharks, or drop bears, or funnel web spiders.

Experiments have shown that cockroaches and funnel- web spiders experience distress and suffering in certain situations.

Their arms, legs, and mouths were taped-sloppily ,likethe webs spiders weave when you test toxic drugs on them.

Watch the milking of terrestrial snakes and funnel- web spiders, and also go behind the scenes to meet mammals and birds up close.