The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

Saskatchewan’s wet spring has pushed mosquito numbers up dramatically and may also rouse wheat midges, which can lie dormant ...

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 ...