Jan 13, 2025 · That man, Kane Christensen, joined the Australian Reptile Park in 2003 as a volunteer venom milker. Each summer the park near Gosford asks the public to drop off captured funnel-webs for the production of antivenom. Almost immediately, Christensen began to notice a procession of abnormally huge funnel-webs, big as men’s palms.

Jan 14, 2025 · Central Coast spider enthusiast Kane Christensen had been working as a milker at the time and brought its size to the attention of researchers. His role in the discovery was rewarded with its scientific name — Atrax christenseni. The Newcastle funnel-web (right) is significantly bigger than the iconic Sydney funnel-web (left).

Jan 20, 2025 · Atrax christenseni was named for Kane Christensen, former head of spiders at the Australian Reptile Park, who first described it in the early 2000s and gave the spiders the nickname "big boys."...

Jan 13, 2025 · Arachnologists Dr. Danilo Harms from the LIB, and Dr. Bruno Buzatto from Flinders University, began these comparisons after learning that unusually large funnel-web male spiders had been brought to...

Jan 17, 2025 · The Sydney funnel-web (left) and the Newcastle funnel-web (right). (Kane Christensen) The habitat of A. robustus itself is focused around the Sydney area, as far north as the Central Coast, south to the Georges River, and west to the Baulkam Hills area, with scattered, isolated sightings only slightly further to the west and south.

Jan 17, 2025 · Australian scientists officially confirmed the existence of a new venomous funnel-web spider species, named Big Boy (Atrax christenseni), discovered near Newcastle, 170 kilometers north of Sydney....

Jan 14, 2025 · An Australian spider enthusiast, Kane Christensen, has been part of a groundbreaking discovery with the identification of a new species of funnel-web spider.

Jan 14, 2025 · 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...

In a study published in the journal BMC Ecology and Evolution this week, researchers said A. christenseni is the third known species of Sydney funnel-web spider. They said it's only found...

Nov 17, 2024 · OCTOBER 31, 2017: SYDNEY, NSW - (EUROPE AND AUSTRALASIA OUT) Kane Christensen with a funnel web spider that was recently handed in to the Mona Vale Vet Clinic in Sydney, New South Wales. Kane Christensen, from the Australian Reptile Park, was collecting the spider for their milking program.