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

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 has received its biggest funnel-web spider to date, who they've named Hemsworth after the famous Aussie brothers.

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,