“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 ...

A new species of fungus straight out of a nightmare has been found lurking on the ceiling of an abandoned gunpowder storeroom ...

Cilantica agasthyaensisis one of the new species included in a new genus of tarantulas from the Western Ghats. | Zeeshan Mirza via Mongabay A researcher described four new species of tarantulas ...

It's a useful measurement for scientists who need to compare different spiders. The most muscular spider species in this category usually belong to the tarantula family. Leg span is the more ...

Here’s how it works. 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.

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations ... of the world’s deadliest spiders – and found there were three species, only two of which were ...

“It’s not only effective against Sydney species, it’s effective against all other funnel-webs and even against mouse spiders, which are a completely different family but are now thought to be related.