There are a staggering 43,000 species of spiders, and among them, the Sydney funnel-web is considered the most dangerous - ...

Australian scientists have newly classified a bigger species of the Sydney funnel web spider, one of the world's deadliest, ...

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

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

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions ...

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 ...

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

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the ...