The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.
Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...
It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...
The newly named subspecies. Photo courtesy Kane Christensen.An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most ...
Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested ...
It’s bad news for arachnophobes but great news for a dedicated NSW spider wrangler: we are now home to a new funnel-web ...