Not everybody would be thrilled about having a newly discovered, plus-size species of deadly spider named after them—but not ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax ...

The newly named subspecies. Photo courtesy Kane Christensen.An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most ...

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 new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" and was first discovered in the early 2000s near Newcastle, 105 ...

The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.

There are several genera of funnel web spiders, but the most common ones in Australia are Atrax, Hadronyche, and Illawarra.

A bigger and more dangerous version of the world's deadliest spider has been discovered by boffins in Australia. The ...

The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" and was first discovered in the early 2000s near Newcastle, 170 ...

SYDNEY: Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one ...

Now scientists in Australia have discovered a new funnel-web spider which is even bigger and more venomous. Kane Christensen is behind the discovery and says "its venom glands are a lot larger and its ...