Big Boy, Venom and spider

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...
“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax ...
It is something researchers have suspected for 20 years. Now they know for sure the Newcastle funnel-web is bigger, scarier, ...
A larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in ...
Atrax christenseni – or ‘Big Boy’ – is found only in Newcastle and splits the funnel-web variant into three types. German arachnologists, the Australian Museum and Flinders University ...
A new species of funnel-web spider, nearly twice the size of its closest cousin and capable of delivering "copious amounts of ...