Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one of the world’s deadliest spiders – and found there were three species, ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax ...

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

Sydney and other parts of New South Wales were hit by fast moving storm, with thunder, lightning, heavy rains and winds that ...