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

They have named the 9-centimetre long species as Atrax christenseni, after spider enthusiast Kane Christensen's contributions ...

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

A new species of funnel-web spider has been discovered in Newcastle, Australia - even larger and more venomous than common ...

The first person to discover the Aussie spider, Kane Christensen, has warned people not to approach it, citing its massive ...

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

An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly ...

Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested ...

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in ...

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

Not everybody would be thrilled about having a newly discovered, plus-size species of deadly spider named after them—but not ...

Australian scientists have identified a new, larger species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, named 'Big Boy'. This species, Atrax christenseni, was discovered near Newcastle by Kane Christensen.