[Red Badger]

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Spider experts from the nearby park retrieved it

They'd have had to retrieve it from the bottom of my shoe.

[z3n]

In most arachnid species, the female is notably larger than the male, so it makes you wonder if that’s true for the australian funnel web then how big could a large female get.

[goodnesswins]

Does it jump, too?...3 inches is a large spider...glad I do not live in Australia.

[V_TWIN]

They got some weird critters in Aussie land

[SkyDancer]

And these will actually chase you. If you had a nest of them in your yard, the whole yard would have to be dug up to the depth of three feet!

[Magnum44]

eh, I've seen bigger...

[Ikeon]

despite being " the most deadly spider in Australia".

no one has died from a bite by these ugly buggers since 1981... cows kill more people that these things do.

[FreedomPoster]

Already on the map, in the southeast.

[lefty-lie-spy]

It’s about as large as a common tarantula in the western USA or even a typical huntsman spider (but a bit thicker); this goes on my “meh” meter as a sensational stupid media piece. Think of all the 1,000s of thousands years the funnel web spider has been around, and just in our short lifetime someone found the “biggest ever”. So stupid…media do it stupid people, by stupid people. I can only hope this story encourages some folks to learn more about spiders, paleontology, history of the earth, etc.

[Pythion.net]

AP needs to do their homework. This spider is 3.1". A male Sydney Funnel-Web spider dubbed "Big Boy" was caught in 2016 that was 4".

Massive funnel-web's spider venom to be milked in Australia

[TangoLimaSierra]

Australia; still trying to find one damned thing that isn’t venomous there.

[MNDude]

nope!

[vespa300]

As scorpio said when he saw Dirty Harry’s 44......”My, that’s a big one”

[central_va]

i hate those things