A member of the public in Australia has handed in the biggest funnel web spider a reptile park has ever been donated.
Hercules, whose fangs could bite through a fingernail, was found in the person's home. They bravely scooped him up and took him to a drop-off point at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, NSW.
The spider is 7.9cm long and is now at the Australian Reptile Park where it wil be part of the antivenom programme.
The funnel web spider is highly venomous but no one has died from one of its bites in over 40 years.
"We're used to having pretty big funnel-web spiders donated to the park, however, receiving a male funnel-web this big is like hitting the jackpot," Emma Teni, a spider keeper at Australian Reptile Park said on Instagram. .
"Whilst female funnel-web spiders are venomous, males have proven to be more lethal."
