(January 14, 2025 at 11:46 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 14, 2025 at 9:50 am)brewer Wrote: Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest.
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 enthusiast and former head of spiders at the Australian Reptile Park.
https://www.reuters.com/science/australi...025-01-14/
From the article:
Quote:"I would not recommend touching them that's for sure, they do give copious amounts of venom."
Don’t touch the great big deadly venomous spider. Got it. That’s really good to know, because I was just about to book a flight to Sydney to collect funnel web spiders with my bare hands.
Boru
When I helped my parents move when I was still in med school, I was moving stuff around in their new garage when a funnel-web ran out at me from behind a stack of old newspapers that had been left behind.
Those damned things don't retreat.
I was wearing boots.
It didn't win...
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
