A primary school-aged boy remains in hospital after he was bitten by a funnel-web spider in a popular Sydney park.

Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world’s ...

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

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider is the most venomous in the world. This scientists already knew since it has 13 people have been ...

Researchers reclassify the infamous Sydney funnel-web spider into three distinct species: Atrax robustus, Atrax montanus, and ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed.

The study marks a major shift in understanding the Sydney funnel-web spider, with each newly identified species occupying ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three ...

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 ...

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of ...