Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus centres on the North Shore of Sydney and the Central Coast, and the ...

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its own right ... is common in the Blue Mountains south and west of Sydney; and ...

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With a bite more deadly to humans than that of any other spider, the iconic Sydney funnel-web has long been considered a single species ... is most common in the Blue Mountains south and west ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday, ...

More information: H.C. Evans et al, The araneopathogenic genus Gibellula (Cordycipitaceae: Hypocreales) in the British Isles, including a new zombie species on orb-weaving cave spiders (Metainae ...

Researchers have confirmed Sydney's funnel-web spiders are made up of three different species. The largest and ... most common in the Blue Mountains, south and west of Sydney, and now the largest ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...