A newly discovered spider in Queensland builds a four-hour silk catapult that uses aggressive ants to trigger their own ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black widow spiders, scientific name Latrodectus mactans, are among the most venomous of all arachnids. They are found in North ...

The discovery of the Chilean recluse spider (Loxosceles laeta) in Porto is the first record of this venomous species in ...

She began flipping over small boulders to see what she could find, as she often enjoys seeing what critters she could ...

A recently discovered spider species in Australia’s tropical rainforests has stunned researchers with a hunting technique ...

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, ...

Learn how the newly discovered ballista spider builds a durable snare specialized in trapping a single ant species. A newly discovered spider species has developed a highly sophisticated trap that ...

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

In ecology, the principle holds that the more diverse and heterogeneous a habitat is, the more different species it supports.

New spider that hunts dangerous ants using a spring-loaded trap discovered by scientists in Australia - A ballista spider’s ...