Male Sydney funnel web spider bites are more dangerous than females, due to the increased potency of their venom. However, these spiders are generally not aggressive unless threatened, so bites ...

"So when people tell me spiders crawl into their beds at night and bite them while they are asleep, I just roll my eyes." Despite the Sydney funnel-web spider's reputation as the world's most ...

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 species. But researchers are optimistic this discovery will have practical implications for antivenom production and spider venom research in the future. “Current ...

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.

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

SYDNEY — Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the ... is effective in treating bites from "Big Boy", scientists said.

which is found most commonly in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, and the Newcastle funnel-web, the largest and most formidable of the three. The bigger the spider, the bigger its bite ...

A good part of that reputation comes from the deadly Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus ... They also tend to hang on or bite multiple times once confronted. The initial bite is painful ...

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, the ...

A mammoth male Sydney funnel-web spider ... there has not been a single fatality from a funnel-web spider bite. In 1981 Dr Struan Sutherland was the first to produce an anti-venom against funnel ...

particularly the Sydney funnel web spider, are considered some of the most venomous spiders in the world. Their venom appears to be highly toxic to humans and primates, though not to most other ...