Scientists name new species of ‘unusually large’ spider in Australia ‘Big Boy’ - New species of funnel-web spider found in ...

"If you are bitten by a funnel-web spider, call an ambulance and go straight to hospital," researcher Geoff Isbister said.

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

The first person to discover the Aussie spider, Kane Christensen, has warned people not to approach it, citing its massive ...

An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly ...

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in ...

The dreaded Sydney funnel web spider from Australia is one of the most venomous spiders in the world. Researchers have now ...

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

A new species of funnel-web spider has been discovered in Newcastle, Australia - even larger and more venomous than common ...

Atrax christenseni, after noticing differences in spiders from the Newcastle area, marking a significant contribution to ...

It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...

Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested ...