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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 ...

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 larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists. Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm (1.97 ...

The deadly 3.54-inch-long spider Atrax christenseni is among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans.