As the year begins and many Australians attempt to start off on a positive note, the Australian Reptile Park has announced it has a new record-holding beast of a funnel-web spider to fuel our ...

Just a week after a new funnel-web spider specimen was hailed as the largest ever found, arachnid experts have published a paper suggesting that there are actually three species of the world’s d ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth ...

even bigger. The Australian Reptile Park recently recorded its largest male funnel-web spider yet, CNN reported. According to the zoo, which is located north of Syndey, Australia, the spider ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...

Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm (1.97 inches) for the more common Sydney funnel-web. "This particular spider is a lot larger, its venom glands are a lot ...

SYDNEY, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has ...

SYDNEY — Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname ...

Researchers have confirmed Sydney's funnel-web spiders are made up of three different species. The largest and most venomous type is known as the Newcastle funnel-web. The finding will not change ...

The funnel-web, which measured in at 9.2cm, was donated to the park’s antivenom program this week, making it the biggest male funnel-web ever donated. An average sized funnel-web spider.

A larger and deadlier species of funnel-web spider - dubbed the 'Big Boy' - has been discovered by experts. The new species of the most venomous spider in the world was discovered by Australian ...

They think it’s deadlier. And its exact location is secret. Scientists have declared the Sydney funnel-web – hallowed and feared as the world’s most venomous spider – is in fact three ...