Though the weird bag looked innocent enough, its content was the stuff of nightmares. It appeared to be the egg sack of a funnel web spider, which had more than 100 tiny crawlers inside.
Funnel web spiders are extremely aggressive spiders with a venomous bite. But it was a good find for the Australian Reptile Park, which is the only place in the country that can extract these spiders' venom to prepare an antidote.