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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, ...

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A newfound type of spider in Australia builds an elaborate spring-loaded snare to catapult prey into its web. Researchers have nicknamed the ingenious creatures “ballista spiders” after the large ...

With great silk, comes great adaptability. In northern Australia, a newly described “ballista spider” appears to hunt only one species: the green tree ant. Its spring-loaded snare turns the ant’s own ...

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 ...

There's more than one way a spider can spin its web. Some construct large vertical orb webs, while others build horizontal sheet webs or tangled cobwebs that ensnare crawling insects. There's also ...

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A man in his 70s was taken to hospital with injuries after catapults were fired towards him, police have said. Kent Police said it was called to a report of five young people firing catapults on ...

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