A ustralian scientists officially confirmed the existence of a new venomous funnel-web spider species, named Big Boy (Atrax ...
The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.
It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...
"If you are bitten by a funnel-web spider, call an ambulance and go straight to hospital," researcher Geoff Isbister said.
A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in ...
Also dubbed “Big Boy,” the Newcastle funnel-web is new to science and is named after Kane Christensen, a former employee at the Australian Reptile Park who brought the spiders to the ...
An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly ...
Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested ...