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

There are several genera of funnel web spiders, but the most common ones in Australia are Atrax, Hadronyche, and Illawarra.

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

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

It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...

The Australian Reptile Park's spider keeper says she named the spider Hemsworth because the arachnid towers over other ...

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

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