Deadly giant spider discovered in Australia

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...
The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.
“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax ...
It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...
Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested ...
It’s bad news for arachnophobes but great news for a dedicated NSW spider wrangler: we are now home to a new funnel-web ...
There are more than 43,000 species of spider in the world and one of them "can kill a toddler in five minutes".