A newly discovered species of fungus takes control of cave-dwelling spiders in Ireland and Northern Ireland, similar to the ...

Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in Australia. Nicknamed “Big Boy” and living just 100 miles north of ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus centres on the North Shore of Sydney and the Central Coast, and the ...

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.

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and ... Institute discovered there are three species of Sydney funnel-web spiders instead of one.

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one of the world’s deadliest spiders – and found there were three ...

They also, through some quirk of evolution, secrete a venom more deadly to humans than any other spider ... That means there are two new species of the world's most venomous spider, but the discovery ...

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists.