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Named for an ancient Roman crossbow-like weapon, the newly found “ballista” spider uses a springy snare to catch prey. By K. R. Callaway In the dead of night, a predator lays its traps in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ant attack! Newly discovered spider uses ingenious 'catapult' to catch prey. A newly discovered spider species in the rainforests ...

The spider has been nicknamed the "ballista" for the speed and force with which it flings prey into its web A new species of spider which weaves a catapult-like silk trap to snare a single type of ant ...

A spider that can construct an elaborate booby-trap to catapult prey directly into its web has been discovered lurking in the Australian rainforest. The nocturnal “ballista” spider spends hours at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Ajay Narendra A spider that can construct an elaborate booby-trap to catapult prey directly into its web has been ...

When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly discovered species from Australia instead uses its silk to craft a spring-loaded, cone-shaped ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider rests underneath a leaf during the day. Scientists have witnessed the spider ...

A new study suggests Earth may have been sending tiny hitchhikers to Venus for billions of years. Researchers found that asteroid impacts could launch microbes into space, where some might survive the ...

Naturalist Andy Saunders, of Syracuse, has an unconventional approach to summer bass fishing. He likes to swing flies on the Salmon River using a 13-foot, two-handed Spey rod, a type of fly-fishing ...

Ajay Narendra, Pranav Joshi, Daniele Liprandi, Gregory J Anderson, Jonas Wolff, CC BY There’s more than one way a spider can spin its web. Some construct large vertical orb webs, while others build ...