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

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

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, ...

Scientists discovered that the Australian “ballista spider” uses a silk cone trap to catapult prey into its web, a feat of spider engineering never before observed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy for the ...

Headlamps alone illuminated the trail bisecting the Costa Rican rainforest. Having waded the black of the Tirimbina reserve so often before, Gilbert Barrantes, Laura Segura Hernández and Diego Solano ...

Ingenious web construction and energy stored in stretched silk strands lend spiders super powers to lift animals too heavy ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The spider has been nicknamed the "ballista" for the speed and force with which it flings prey into its web [Macquarie University] ...