Scientists discovered that the Australian “ballista spider” uses a silk cone trap to catapult prey into its web, a feat of spider engineering never before observed.
Scientists have discovered a “ballista spider” that builds a spring-powered silk trap designed specifically to catch aggressive green tree ants. The ant unknowingly triggers the mechanism itself, ...
A tiny spider in the rainforests of Queensland has figured out how to hunt prey far more powerful and dangerous than itself, ...
A recently discovered spider species in Australia’s tropical rainforests has stunned researchers with a hunting technique ...
A new species of spider that weaves a catapult-like silk trap to snare a single ant species has been discovered in the remote rainforests of northern Australia.
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