Funnel-web Spider. Image via Pexels While incredibly resilient, the Australian funnel-web spider faces risks due to fluctuating rainfall and temperature patterns that impact their breeding and hunting ...

Scientists have uncovered a new and larger species of Sydney funnel-web spider, aptly named “Big Boy”, and it’s turning heads (and stomachs) in the arachnid world. With its enormous size, highly ...

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One species, the diving-bell spider, builds its web beneath the surface of lakes and ponds, attaches an air bubble to it for breathing, and lives out its days underwater.

Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in Newcastle.

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.

It’s a close relative of the Sydney funnel-web spider, which is known for painful bites that can cause serious illness and even death.

The team concluded that the Sydney funnel-web spider, which was previously known to have varying characteristics, is actually comprised of three different species.

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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 ...

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