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A statement from the Sydney National Museum and Newcastle University said a new subspecies of deadly venomous spiders has been ...

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

Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in ...

Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different populations of the Sydney funnel-web spider – one of the world’s deadliest spiders – and found there were three species, ...

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 ...

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and Atrax christenseni in Newcastle, 150 kilometers north. This discovery highlights the remarkable complexity of one of Australia's most iconic spider groups. Meet “Big Boy”: New funnel-web ...

What some Australian scientists didn’t know, but recently discovered, is that there are actually three species of Sydney funnel-web spiders and the one they nicknamed the “Newcastle big boy” is the ...

He also realised the biggest funnel-webs all came from Newcastle. Related: Meet ‘Big Boy’ the funnel-web spider Kane’s hunch that there was more than one species of funnel-web was shared by the late ...

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