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.
‘This particular spider is a lot larger, its venom glands are a lot larger and its fangs are a lot longer,’ said spider expert Kane Christensen, the former head of spiders at the Australian ...
The species, named in honor of Newcastle spider enthusiast Kane Christensen, is the largest of three newly identified species of funnel-web spiders. The discovery was made by researchers from the ...
“The sheer size of the males, compared to the males of the other Atrax species is simply astounding,” said Kane Christensen, a spider expert who first noticed the large proportions of the arachni ...
Also dubbed “Big Boy,” the Newcastle funnel-web is new to science and is named after Kane Christensen, a former employee at the Australian Reptile Park who brought the spiders to the ...
The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" and was first discovered in the early 2000s near Newcastle, 170km north of Sydney, by Kane Christensen, a spider enthusiast and former ...
The Australian Reptile Park’s antivenom program kickstarted the research after spider keeper Kane Christensen noted many spiders donated to the Park were ‘unusually large’. “The sheer size ...