Andy Beal and Michael Derkenne grew up in Australia and met in 1998 while attending the University of Newcastle north of ...

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

Thirteen Narrabri Shire students have been supported in pursuing post-secondary school education opportunities thanks to the ...

“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 ...

Arachnologists Dr. Danilo Harms from the LIB, and Dr. Bruno Buzatto from Flinders University ... large spiders all came from Newcastle, a city 150 km north of Sydney. Investigating further ...

Genevieve Heggarty, a 25-year-old ecologist who moved to Sydney from the Blue Mountains six years ago to start university ... who moved to Penrith from Newcastle to begin his studies.

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 ... Loria said ...

The largest and most venomous type is known as the Newcastle funnel-web ... the Australian Museum in Sydney, and Flinders University in Adelaide published their findings in the journal BMC ...

a clinical toxicologist at the University of Newcastle. “For the Sydney funnel-web, the rate of envenoming is about 10 to 20 per cent,” Isbister said. “But if you look at the southern and ...

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.

She is a graduate of the University of Oxford ... was originally thought to be the same as the Sydney funnel-web, Atrax robustus. The Newcastle funnel-web spider, Atrax christenseni, the most ...

Nicknamed “Big Boy” and living just 100 miles north of Sydney, the Newcastle funnel-web has ... Biodiversity Change in Germany and Flinders University in Adelaide, subjected various specimens ...