A Colossal Arachnid Discovery In a remarkable turn of events, the largest male funnel-web spider ever recorded has found a ...

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique snapshot ...

Arachnids, particularly spiders, play a critical role in maintaining the balance of ... A fascinating example of this is the newly discovered giant trapdoor spider, Euoplos dignitas, found in ...

Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in ...

The discovery was made by Kane Christensen, a spider enthusiast and former head of spiders at the Australian Reptile Park. Christensen described the spider as significantly larger, with notably bigger ...

An American expat living in Australia has named the number one thing she's struggling with since moving - and she's not alone ...

Rising above a tall karri eucalypt forest, the granite domes of Western Australia’s Porongurup Range ... National Park’s ‘Tree-in-a-rock’ – a giant karri tree growing out of a granite boulder. The ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus centres on the North Shore of Sydney and the Central Coast, and the ...

Funnel-web spiders, which are mostly found in Australia, differ from other spiders with funnel-shaped webs. The most notorious is Atrax robustus, which is commonly known as the Sydney funnel-web ...

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.

A statement from the Sydney National Museum and Newcastle University said a new subspecies of deadly venomous spiders has been discovered on Australia’s east coast, TASS reports Thus, the discovered ...

The huge spider has dubbed “big boy” and ... developed in the 1980s - prevents most fatalities from funnel-web spiders in Australia. Before effective medicine was introduced, 13 deaths linked ...