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.

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

Scientists reveal the Sydney funnel-web spider is actually three distinct species, with Newcastle's "Big Boy" reigning ...

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

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

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

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

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

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