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

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A new spider species has been discovered in the rainforests of north Queensland that is capable of weaving powerful ...

In northern Australia, a newly described “ballista spider” appears to hunt only one species: the green tree ant. Its ...

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