{"id":179878,"date":"2024-01-05T06:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T12:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/largest-male-specimen-of-worlds-most-venomous-spider-found-in-australia"},"modified":"2024-01-05T06:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T12:24:44","slug":"largest-male-specimen-of-worlds-most-venomous-spider-found-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/largest-male-specimen-of-worlds-most-venomous-spider-found-in-australia","title":{"rendered":"Largest male specimen of world\u2019s most venomous spider found in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/largest-male-specimen-of-worlds-most-venomous-spider-found-in-australia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY \u2014 With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/spider-venom-shows-promise-treating-erectile-dysfunction-flna1b5794477\" target=\"_blank\">the world\u2019s most venomous arachnid<\/a> has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save lives after a member of the public discovered it by chance.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly Sydney funnel-web <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/spider-found-inside-ear-canal-report-rcna121932\" target=\"_blank\">spider<\/a> dubbed \u201cHercules\u201d was found on the Central Coast, about 50 miles north of Sydney, and was initially given to a local hospital, the Australian Reptile Park said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Spider experts from the nearby park retrieved it and soon realized it was the largest male specimen ever received from the public in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY \u2014 With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world\u2019s most venomous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save lives after a member of the public discovered it by chance. The deadly Sydney funnel-web spider dubbed \u201cHercules\u201d was found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}