Spider, Australia

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 species, ...
“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 ...
An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly ...
Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of ...
Scientists in Australia have discovered a spider that they've unironically nicknamed "Big Boy." This arachnid is a larger, more venomous version of the Sydney funnel web, known to be one of ...