If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.

A Colossal Arachnid Discovery In a remarkable turn of events, the largest male funnel-web spider ever recorded has found a ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous city, was long thought to be a single species. But it’s actually three different ...

One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest. Sydney funnel-web ...

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of an antivenom in 1981, despite the 30 to 40 recorded funnel-web bites every ...

“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 ...

Related: Meet ‘Big Boy’ the funnel-web spider Kane’s hunch that there was more than one species of funnel-web was shared by the late arachnologist Dr Michael Gray at the Australian Museum. “Mike ...

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

Perhaps the most famous group of spiders that construct funnel-shaped webs is the Australian funnel-web spiders. There are 36 of them and some are dangerous as they produce a fast-acting and ...