Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders ... funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus, is found from the Central Coast to the Sydney Basin; the Southern Sydney ...

Playfully dubbed “Big Boy” by spider ... of funnel-web spiders. Dr Gray joined the museum in 1968 as assistant curator of arachnology. When he retired in 2009, its arachnology collection had grown to ...

Also identified were two other species; the Southern ... iconic spider groups. Meet “Big Boy”: New funnel-web spider species discovered and named Sydney's infamous funnel-web spiders have ...

They say good things come in threes—but is that true even for the most venomous spider in the world ... discovering that unusually large male funnel-web spiders from Newcastle had arrived ...

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders ... funnel-web spider, Atrax robustus, is found from the Central Coast to the Sydney Basin; the Southern Sydney ...

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of an antivenom in 1981, despite the 30 to 40 recorded funnel-web bites every ...

A new species of Funnel Web Spider named Atrax christenseni ... the biggest of these spiders, the aforementioned ‘big boy’, are distinct enough from the other funnel-backs to be classified ...

Related: Meet ‘Big Boy’ the funnel-web spider ... funnel-web spiders. Dr Gray joined the museum in 1968 as assistant curator of arachnology. When he retired in 2009, its arachnology collection had ...