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 ...

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

A new bigger and more dangerous version of the world's deadliest spider, the funnel web, has been identified in the land down ...

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

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

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

There are more than 43,000 species of spider in the world and one of them "can kill a toddler in five minutes".

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

Atrax christenseni, after noticing differences in spiders from the Newcastle area, marking a significant contribution to ...

A new type of spider, nicknamed the ‘big boy’, has officially been discovered in Australia- and immediately became one of the ...

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