In research released Monday, scientists from the Australian Museum, Flinders University and Germany's Leibniz Institute discovered there are three species of Sydney funnel-web spiders instead of one.

Among the estimated 43,000 venomous spider species globally, the Sydney funnel-web is particularly notorious due to its rapid potential kill time. Rick Vetter, a retired research associate from ...

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists.

SYDNEY, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider ... bedroom or somewhere in the house where they might have ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.

The Sydney funnel-web spider is one of the most deadly species of spider in the world. Now scientists in Australia have discovered a new funnel-web spider which is even bigger and more venomous.

Researchers reclassify the infamous Sydney funnel-web spider into three distinct species: Atrax robustus, Atrax montanus, and Atrax christenseni. Led by a team from the Leibniz Institute ...

The Sydney funnel-back spider has held the title of world’s ... find them in a garage or in a bedroom or somewhere in the house where they might have wandered in during the night.

Last week, a record-breaking Newcastle funnel-web spider was caught in the wild and presented to the Australian Reptile Park near Sydney. It was named Hemsworth after Chris Hemsworth, the ...