Big Boy Is Here and He’s Most Venomous Spider in World

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...
It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...
“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax ...
A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in ...
Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested ...
A new funnel-web species has been discovered in New South Wales. The super-sized spider was found in Newcastle, 110 ...
It’s bad news for arachnophobes but great news for a dedicated NSW spider wrangler: we are now home to a new funnel-web ...
A new species of funnel-web spider, nearly twice the size of its closest cousin and capable of delivering "copious amounts of ...