Although its venom is the deadliest in the world, no one in Australia has died of a funnel-web bite since the introduction of an antivenom in 1981, despite the 30 to 40 recorded funnel-web bites every ...

A Colossal Arachnid Discovery In a remarkable turn of events, the largest male funnel-web spider ever recorded has found a ...

Atrax christenseni owes its name to Kane Christensen, a Central Coast spider enthusiast who first brought the Newcastle specimens to researchers’ attention. “The sheer size of the males ...

“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 ...

Performing genetic analysis of the spiders, they found that what we ... as far north as the Central Coast, south to the Georges River, and west to the Baulkam Hills area, with scattered, isolated ...

The classic Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) is found mainly in the greater Sydney region and Central Coast. The Newcastle funnel-web (Atrax christenseni), whose males are the largest of ...

Emma Teni, the head spider keeper at the Australian Reptile Park on the NSW Central Coast, said she was surprised that Hemsworth was a male when staff picked him up from a drop-off location in ...