It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

Emma Teni, the Australian Reptile Park Spider Keeper, then decided that Hemsworth was the perfect name. “This spider was just so big in comparison to his peers, it reminded me of Chris Hemsworth and ...

There are big spiders, and then there’s the Newcastle ‘Big Boy.’ First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the largest type of funnel-web spider found in Australia.

They also described a third, and the largest, related funnel-web spider species: Atrax christenseni. They are named after Kane Christensen, the former head of spiders at the Australian Reptile Park.

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The Sydney funnel-web spider is the most venomous in the world. This scientists already knew since it has 13 people have been reported to have been killed by it. What some Australian scientists didn’t ...

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.

"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 ...

Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" and ...