"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 ...

The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" and was first discovered in the early 2000s near Newcastle, 170 ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a spider that they've unironically nicknamed "Big Boy." This arachnid is a larger, ...

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

“Big boy” funnel-web was initially discovered in the early 2000s, but has now been officially confirmed by Australian ...

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

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

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

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

A new bigger and more dangerous version of the world's deadliest spider, the funnel web, has been identified in the land down ...

It’s bad news for arachnophobes but great news for a dedicated NSW spider wrangler: we are now home to a new funnel-web ...