Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...
“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax ...
It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...
The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans. “When I felt ...
It’s bad news for arachnophobes but great news for a dedicated NSW spider wrangler: we are now home to a new funnel-web ...
Dubbed "Big boy'" the impressive spider can grow up to 3.54 inches (9cm) compared with 1.97 inches (5cm) for the more common ...
longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in Australia. Nicknamed “Big Boy” and living just 100 miles north of Sydney, the Newcastle ...