Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Ajay Narendra A spider that can construct an elaborate booby-trap to catapult prey directly into its web has been ...

A hidden camera captured a dramatic moment in a spider web as a dragonfly became trapped in the delicate threads. The spider quickly moved in, securing its prey while the web held the struggling ...

Anewly identified spider from the tropical rainforests of northern Australia has unveiled a hunting technique unlike any previously recorded. The species, dubbed the “ballista spider,” uses a ...

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 ...

Ajay Narendra, Pranav Joshi, Daniele Liprandi, Gregory J Anderson, Jonas Wolff, CC BY There’s more than one way a spider can spin its web. Some construct large vertical orb webs, while others build ...