One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders ... who first described it in the early 2000s and gave the spiders the nickname "big boys." These funnel-web spiders are the largest of the three ...

Scientists from Australia and Germany have classified a new, highly venomous species of spider, Atrax christenseni, known as Big Boy. It is very large and highly venomous, with bites that can be ...

It takes between 150 and 200 venom extractions to produce a single vial of antivenom. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The huge spider has dubbed “big boy” and are said to release “copious ... prevents most fatalities from funnel-web spiders in Australia. Before effective medicine was introduced, 13 deaths ...

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 ...

“We’re used to having pretty big funnel-web spiders donated to the Park but receiving a male funnel-web this big is like hitting the jackpot,” spider keeper Emma Teni said. “While female ...