Anewly identified spider from the tropical rainforests of northern Australia has unveiled a hunting technique unlike any ...

A newly identified Australian spider uses a spring-loaded silk snare to hurl green tree ants into its web at accelerations of ...

A tiny Australian spider has been found using a silk-powered catapult trap to fling aggressive green tree ants into its web.

Scientists discovered that the Australian “ballista spider” uses a silk cone trap to catapult prey into its web, a feat of ...

In an unprecedented example of hunting specialisation, the ballista spider has evolved a silk-powered snare that targets just ...

A tiny spider in the rainforests of Queensland has figured out how to hunt prey far more powerful and dangerous than itself, ...

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, ...

There's more than one way a spider can spin its web. Some construct large vertical orb webs, while others build horizontal ...

Flung prey can reach speeds of up to 14.4 feet per second, or a little less than ten miles per hour. An insect will land in ...

A study, published this week in the journal Current Biology, describes how the tiny arachnid builds a cone-shaped snare to catapult green tree ants into its web, earning it the nickname “ballista ...

New research has identified how social spiders evolved different ways of hunting in groups. While these spiders have evolved socially similar behaviors -- living in large family groups that share both ...

New research has identified how social spiders evolved different ways of hunting in groups. Spiders are normally solitary creatures but a few species have evolved to be social and live in groups, ...