Researchers say their hunting method - which allows them to prey on dangerous ants - is unprecedented.

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The spider, which has yet to be officially named but has been dubbed the ‘ballista spider’, uses web traps to launch prey ...