The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.

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

Now, a new species of funnel-web spider has been discovered, and it is larger and even deadlier than all other funnel-web ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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