Big Boy, Australia and Sydney funnel-web spider

The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.
Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested ...
It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...
Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...
It’s bad news for arachnophobes but great news for a dedicated NSW spider wrangler: we are now home to a new funnel-web ...
“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax ...
A new funnel-web species has been discovered in New South Wales. The super-sized spider was found in Newcastle, 110 ...
A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in ...