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 ...

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

The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans. “When I felt ...

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

"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 ...

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