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A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they had ever seen.

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen.

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they had ever seen.See the funnel-web spider Hemsworth ...