The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

Last week, a record-breaking Newcastle funnel-web spider was caught in the wild and presented to the Australian Reptile Park near Sydney. It was named Hemsworth after Chris Hemsworth, the ...

Just a week after a new funnel-web spider specimen ... he noted to the Sydney Morning Herald that many people donating them were confusing some for the common huntsman spider, due to their ...

The family of Australian funnel web spiders includes the Sydney funnel web spider (Atrax robustus), a species with venom so toxic that it's made headlines worldwide. That said, thanks to modern ...

In research released Monday, scientists from the Australian Museum, Flinders University and Germany's Leibniz Institute discovered there are three species of Sydney funnel-web spiders instead of one.

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.

And its exact location is secret. Scientists have declared the Sydney funnel-web – hallowed and feared as the world’s most venomous spider – is in fact three separate species. And one of the ...

more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" and was first discovered in the early 2000s near ...

Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm (1.97 inches) for the more common Sydney funnel-web. "This particular spider is a lot larger, its venom glands are a lot ...