The community is 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 its ...

Atrax christenseni, after noticing differences in spiders from the Newcastle area, marking a significant contribution to ...

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

They have named the 9-centimetre long species as Atrax christenseni, after spider enthusiast Kane Christensen's contributions ...

An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly ...

Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of ...

A new species of funnel-web spider has been discovered in Newcastle, Australia - even larger and more venomous than common ...

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

"If you are bitten by a funnel-web spider, call an ambulance and go straight to hospital," researcher Geoff Isbister said.

The first person to discover the Aussie spider, Kane Christensen, has warned people not to approach it, citing its massive ...

"This particular spider is much larger, its venom glands are much larger, and its fangs are much longer," Christensen said, noting its distinct features compared to the true Sydney funnel-web, Atrax ...