Flung prey can reach speeds of up to 14.4 feet per second, or a little less than ten miles per hour. An insect will land in ...

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 ...

With great silk, comes great adaptability. In northern Australia, a newly described “ballista spider” appears to hunt only ...

Anewly identified spider from the tropical rainforests of northern Australia has unveiled a hunting technique unlike any ...

A spider that can construct an elaborate booby-trap to catapult prey directly into its web has been discovered lurking in the Australian rainforest.

A newly identified Australian spider uses a spring-loaded silk snare to hurl green tree ants into its web at accelerations of ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of North Queensland ...

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

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest adventures, but upon a closer look with my macro lens, I began to notice that ...

Scientists have officially brought genetic engineering to the spider's web. For the first time, researchers have created a gene-edited spider that spins red fluorescent silk. Led by a team at the ...

Close-up glowing spider web or cobweb with dew hanging on the grass in the early morning. Golden sunrise shines on spider web and grassland in the background. Focus on cobweb.© Tanes ...