Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

Almost every Australian is taught, from a very young age, to be cautious around the funnel-web spider. These large ... Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus centres on the North Shore of Sydney and the Central Coast, and the ...

Of the staggering 43,000 venomous spider species worldwide, the Sydney funnel-web stands out for its lethal bite. What makes this Australian species the deadliest in the world is its swift ...

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one of the world’s deadliest spiders – and found there were three ...

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in Australia. Nicknamed “Big Boy” and living just 100 miles north of ...

Related: What is the deadliest spider in the world? Now, scientists have untangled how these species are related by collecting wild spiders throughout the Sydney suburbs and analyzing specimens ...

SYDNEY, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has ...

A new type of spider, nicknamed the ‘big boy’, has officially been discovered in Australia- and immediately became one of the deadliest arachnids in the world. The Sydney funnel-back spider ...

Almost every Australian is taught, from a very young age, to be cautious around the funnel-web spider ... Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a ...