If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

“Current antivenom successfully treats all funnel-web bites,” Dr Smith says. “It’s not only effective against Sydney species, it’s effective against all other funnel-webs and even against mouse ...

but mouse spiders lack the distinctive funnel-shaped web. Australian funnel web spiders, particularly the Sydney funnel web spider, are considered some of the most venomous spiders in the world.

but mouse spiders lack the distinctive funnel-shaped web. Male Sydney funnel web spider bites are more dangerous than females, due to the increased potency of their venom. However, these spiders ...

In research released Monday, scientists from the Australian Museum, Flinders University and Germany's Leibniz Institute discovered there are three species of Sydney funnel-web spiders instead of one.

But this is certainly not what we advocate for this native spider species. In the same way that we recommend staying well away from funnel-web and redback species, all of which are potentially deadly, ...

Researchers reclassify the infamous Sydney funnel-web spider into three distinct species: Atrax robustus, Atrax montanus, and Atrax christenseni. Led by a team from the Leibniz Institute ...

A new species of Funnel Web Spider named Atrax christenseni and nicknamed ‘Big Boy’ is pictured at the Australian Museum in Sydney (Picture: Reuters) A new type of spider, nicknamed the ‘big ...

They are sometimes confused with mouse spiders, which are also (mostly) shiny black spiders with large fangs, but mouse spiders lack the distinctive funnel-shaped web. Australian funnel web spiders, ...

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.

Two brain regions work together when mice learn to override the instinct to run and hide from a potential threat.