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

Now, a new species of funnel-web spider has been discovered, and it is larger and even deadlier than all other funnel-web ...

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

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

The first person to discover the Aussie spider, Kane Christensen, has warned people not to approach it, citing its massive ...

A new type of spider, nicknamed the ‘big boy’, has officially been discovered in Australia- and immediately became one of the ...

One of the most common fears humans have is the fear of spiders. They can be scary, intimidating creatures but they all have ...

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in ...

Now scientists in Australia have discovered a new funnel-web spider which is even bigger and more venomous. Kane Christensen is behind the discovery and says "its venom glands are a lot larger and its ...

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

Atrax christenseni, after noticing differences in spiders from the Newcastle area, marking a significant contribution to ...

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