If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

A Colossal Arachnid Discovery In a remarkable turn of events, the largest male funnel-web spider ever recorded has found a ...

This includes the world's deadliest spider, whose secrets were recently revealed. The untold story of the world's deadliest ...

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 current antivenom is already effective against a wide variety of funnel-web spider bites, including the newly discovered "Big Boy." Only male Sydney funnel-web spiders have venom that can kill an ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of an antivenom in 1981, despite the 30 to 40 recorded funnel-web bites every ...

“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 the ...

The family of Australian funnel web spiders includes the Sydney funnel web spider (Atrax robustus), a species with venom so toxic that it's made headlines worldwide. That said, thanks to modern ...

Researchers reclassify the infamous Sydney funnel-web spider into three distinct species: Atrax robustus, Atrax montanus, and Atrax christenseni. Led by a team from the Leibniz Institute ...

A good part of that reputation comes from the deadly Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus. This particular spider has evaded easy categorization. Different specimens across its range vary ...

A mammoth male Sydney funnel-web spider, who has been named Hemsworth after brothers and actors Chris, Luke and Liam Hemsworth, has been collected by the Australian Reptile Park. Measuring in at 9 ...