Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

A statement from the Sydney National Museum and Newcastle University said a new subspecies of deadly venomous spiders has been ...

Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world’s ...

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

There are seven broad types of spider webs, and each is created in a unique way. In this article, we find out about their ...

The “classic” Sydney funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus, is found from the Central Coast to the Sydney Basin; the Southern Sydney funnel-web, Atrax montanus, is common in the Blue Mountains ...

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Few things fear people’s hearts, like the mention of venomous spiders. According to the Guinness World Records, venomous spiders are some of the most dangerous creatures on Earth, and the Brazilian ...

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 ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

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.