Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say.

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’d ever seen.

The Australian Reptile Park's spider keeper says she named the spider Hemsworth because the arachnid towers over other spiders, like the Hemsworth brothers

The spider spans 3 point 6 inches. That's half an inch larger than the zoo's last biggest funnel-web spider, Hercules.

A massive funnel web spider, believed to be the largest ever discovered, has been named after the Hemsworth brothers. During peak funnel web season this week, the Australian Reptile Park received its largest male funnel web spider donation to date for the antivenom program,