A newly-discovered spider uses a unique, "spring-loaded" web trap to snatch its prey from a safe distance! A mysterious hum has plagued the Earth for 50 years. Scientists may have finally found its ...

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 ...

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 ...