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 ...

Victoria and parts of South Australia. Sydney funnel webs, as their name suggests, are commonly found in and around Sydney. Northern New South Wales is another hot spot for these spiders.

Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's ...

Funnel web spiders are native to eastern Australia, with several species distributed across New South Wales, Victoria and parts of South Australia. Sydney funnel webs, as their name suggests, are ...

An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia's most famous spider. With a bite more deadly to humans than that of any other spider, the iconic Sydney funnel-web ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider ... are usually spotted within around 150 km (93 miles) of Sydney ...

Rising above a tall karri eucalypt forest, the granite domes of Western Australia’s Porongurup Range National ... humid pockets in a world that’s changed around them. Trapdoor spiders are well known ...

Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world ... are usually spotted within around 150km of Sydney, Australia’s ...

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed ... Sydney funnel-webs are found in eastern Australia, within around 100 miles (160km) of the city ...

A new species of Funnel Web Spider named Atrax christenseni and nicknamed ... The nocturnal black arachnids are usually spotted within around 150 km (93 miles) of Sydney, Australia's largest city, and ...