Christensen warned residents about the potential danger of these spiders venturing into homes. "You can sometimes find them in a garage, bedroom, or somewhere else in the house, especially if they ...

Spider enthusiast and former head of spiders at the Australian Reptile Park Kane Christensen sits near a new species of Funnel Web Spider named Atrax christenseni, after Christensen's ...

Kane Christensen. The original single species of Sydney funnel-web is named Atrax robustus, and grows up to 1.6 inches in length. The researchers describe in the paper how they used DNA analysis ...

They are named after Kane Christensen, the former head of spiders at the Australian Reptile Park. He first described this variant in the early 2000s and nicknamed them “big boys ...

The study was launched after Mr Christensen, based at the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales, collected a number of “unusually large male funnel-web spiders” as part of a venom ...

The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" and was first discovered in the early 2000s near Newcastle, 170 km (105 miles) north of Sydney, by Kane Christensen, a spider ...