While they may incite fear due to their impressive dimensions, these spiders play crucial roles in their ecosystems and have become subjects of significant scientific interest and study.

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

A ustralian scientists officially confirmed the existence of a new venomous funnel-web spider species, named Big Boy (Atrax ...

A massive funnel web spider, the largest ever discovered, has been named ‘Hemsworth’ after the famous brothers. The Australian Reptile Park received the spider for its antivenom program during peak ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax ...

Scientists reveal the Sydney funnel-web spider is actually three distinct species, with Newcastle's "Big Boy" reigning ...

The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.

There are more than 43,000 species of spider in the world and one of them "can kill a toddler in five minutes".

After earning $43 million in 2024, Sophie Rain will surpass that this year amid fierce ethical debates about her child-like ...

The dreaded Sydney funnel web spider from Australia is one of the most venomous spiders in the world. Researchers have now ...

It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...

SYDNEY : Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the ...