The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed.

Recently a new species of spider was discovered in Australia. This new funnel webbed species is nicknamed 'Big Boy' because ...

Community members are rallying behind a Choctaw pet rescue that went up in flames on Tuesday morning. The fire that broke out at Fur Ever Friends Rescue claimed the lives of a dozen dogs and destroyed ...

Image credit Kane Christensen Male Newcastle funnel-webs are the easiest to identify. “Newcastle funnel-web males have got a much longer and thinner mating organ [called] the pedipalp,” says research ...

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

The study marks a major shift in understanding the Sydney funnel-web spider, with each newly identified species occupying ...

Researchers reclassify the infamous Sydney funnel-web spider into three distinct species: Atrax robustus, Atrax montanus, and ...

The Atrax christenseni was established after Kane Christensen took some unusually large male specimens for the Venom Program at the Australian Reptile Park. In appreciation, he had the species in ...

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...