"If you are bitten by a funnel-web spider, call an ambulance and go straight to hospital," researcher Geoff Isbister said.
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.
“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni – ‘Big Boy’ – is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney funnel-web, Atrax ...
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 ...
Scientists discover new ‘unusually large’ species of one of world’s deadliest spiders - New species of funnel-web spider ...
Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's ...
The newly named subspecies. Photo courtesy Kane Christensen.An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most ...
A bigger and more dangerous version of the world's deadliest spider has been discovered by boffins in Australia. The ...