"This particular spider is much larger, its venom glands are much larger, and its fangs are much longer," Christensen said, noting its distinct features compared to the true Sydney funnel-web, Atrax ...

Atrax christenseni, after noticing differences in spiders from the Newcastle area, marking a significant contribution to ...

They have named the 9-centimetre long species as Atrax christenseni, after spider enthusiast Kane Christensen's contributions ...

A new species of funnel-web spider has been discovered in Newcastle, Australia - even larger and more venomous than common ...

The first person to discover the Aussie spider, Kane Christensen, has warned people not to approach it, citing its massive ...

An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly ...

A new type of spider, nicknamed the ‘big boy’, has officially been discovered in Australia- and immediately became one of the ...

It’s bad news for arachnophobes but great news for a dedicated NSW spider wrangler: we are now home to a new funnel-web ...

"If you are bitten by a funnel-web spider, call an ambulance and go straight to hospital," researcher Geoff Isbister said.

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in ...

The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" and was first discovered in the early 2000s near Newcastle, 170km north of Sydney, by Kane Christensen, a spider enthusiast and former ...