Spider, Big Boy

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one ...
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 larger, more venomous, longer-fanged species of one of the world’s deadliest spiders has been discovered by scientists in ...
The Latin name for the Big Boy species is derived from the Newcastle spider enthusiast Kane Christensen, who brought it to the attention of the research team. The study was launched after Mr ...
The newly named subspecies. Photo courtesy Kane Christensen.An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most ...