These are the homes of the Porongurup trapdoor (Cataxia sp.), a shy brown spider that grows to about 4cm long, with a dark body and light brown legs. The Porongurup trapdoors are charming architects ...

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

Trapdoor spiders are medium-sized arachnids with sturdy bodies and thick legs built for digging. They have a dark brown or black coloration and a shiny, rounded abdomen. Females are usually larger ...

Philadelphia Eagles safety Sydney Brown is headed to his first Super Bowl after they won the NFC Championship game against the Washington Commanders Sunday, 55-23. "Congrats," Bielema wrote on 'X ...

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 ...

Trapdoor spiders are medium-sized arachnids with sturdy bodies and thick legs built for digging. They have a dark brown or black coloration and a shiny, rounded abdomen. Females are usually larger ...

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.

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

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.

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more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" and was first discovered in the early 2000s near ...