The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider is the most venomous in the world. This scientists already knew since it has 13 people have been ...

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...

Scientists reveal the Sydney funnel-web spider is actually three distinct species, with Newcastle's "Big Boy" reigning ...

Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in ...

The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.

A ustralian scientists officially confirmed the existence of a new venomous funnel-web spider species, named Big Boy (Atrax ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax ...

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of ...

The newly named subspecies. Photo courtesy Kane Christensen.An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most ...

Also dubbed “Big Boy,” the Newcastle funnel-web is new to science and is named after Kane Christensen, a former employee at the Australian Reptile Park who brought the spiders to the researchers’ ...