U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials recently seized 16 pounds of Bengal monitor lizard parts, 50 pounds of raw meat and 33 pounds of mangoes, garlic, bamboo and banana plants at a Los ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider rests underneath a leaf during the day. Scientists have witnessed the spider ...

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‘Even Spider-Man is like, “What’s going on?”’ … Tom Holland in the forthcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day.Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy It’s hard to pinpoint when Marvel trailers stopped being mere ...

A newfound type of spider in Australia builds an elaborate spring-loaded snare to catapult prey into its web. Researchers have nicknamed the ingenious creatures “ballista spiders” after the large ...

With great silk, comes great adaptability. In northern Australia, a newly described “ballista spider” appears to hunt only one species: the green tree ant. Its spring-loaded snare turns the ant’s own ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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