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

"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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested ...

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