Shutterstock Images Me and spiders are not friends. I know, I know, they do good things. But honestly the way they move, and ...

Watch out! The arrival of a Giant Funnel-Web Spider is causing quite a stir at the Australian Zoo. 🕷️ This fascinating creature is both beautiful and deadly, sparking curiosity and concern alike. Can ...

Event Manager Billy Clay says they are trying to hold the event together until they can move back into the fairgrounds. Alex Weister speaks with Richard Yeakley, public information officer for the ...

A new species of Funnel Web Spider named Atrax christenseni and ... of the deadliest arachnids in the world. The Sydney funnel-back spider has held the title of world’s most venomous spider ...

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one of ... museum specimens dating back to the early 1900s.

Hemsworth is believed to be the largest Newcastle funnel-web of its kind ever recorded. Professor Isbister said one thing to keep in mind was the bigger the spider, the bigger the bite.

An Australian spider ... funnel-web species to 38. The Newcastle funnel-web is distinguished by its evolutionary history, with the last shared ancestor with the Sydney funnel-web dating back ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found ... have more species with smaller ranges rather than just one thing that’s quite common,” Loria said. “So, there’s more ...

With a bite more deadly to humans than that of any other spider ... dating back to the early 1900s. Dr. Danilo Harms, co-lead author, said the revised taxonomy for funnel-web spiders may have ...

The 'classic' Sydney funnel-web spider on the (left ... some of which date back 100 years. The Blue Mountains variant was first classified in 1914 and Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of ...