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

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

"If you are bitten by a funnel-web spider, call an ambulance and go straight to hospital," researcher Geoff Isbister said.

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

Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested ...

An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly ...

Scientists discover new ‘unusually large’ species of one of world’s deadliest spiders - New species of funnel-web spider ...

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

A massive new subspecies of Australia's funnel-web spider, the deadliest in the world, has been discovered by scientists in ...

There are several genera of funnel web spiders, but the most common ones in Australia are Atrax, Hadronyche, and Illawarra.