If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

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.

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.

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 ...

secrete a venom more deadly to humans than any other spider. There are dozens of funnel-web species in Australia, but the most venomous of the bunch is the Sydney funnel-web (Atrax robustus), an ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.