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.

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...

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

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

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

Scientists in Australia have discovered a ‘giant’ species of Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world’s deadliest.

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

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 ...

Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's ...