One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest. Sydney funnel-web spiders ...

There are big spiders, and then there’s the Newcastle ‘Big Boy.’ First described in the early 2000s, this spider is the largest type of funnel-web spider found in Australia. Confusion over the Big Boy ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its ...

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its own right. Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider, a highly venomous arachnid found crawling in and around Australia’s most populous city, was long thought to be a single species. But it’s actually three different species ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a spider that they've unironically nicknamed "Big Boy." This arachnid is a larger, more venomous version of the Sydney funnel web, known to be one of the ...

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They say good things come in threes—but is that true even for the most venomous spider in the world? Scientists in Germany and Australia have reclassified one of the world’s most infamous arachnids.

SOMERSBY, Australia (CNN) - A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed into a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named ...