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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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(CNN) — 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, ...

In an unprecedented example of hunting specialisation, the ballista spider has evolved a silk-powered snare that targets just one species of ant, launching its prey into the air with astonishing power ...

Weaver ants are arboreal ants distributed in South Asia and Australia, and are known to secrete a venom primarily composed of formic acid and to be extremely ferocious and aggressive. The Australian ...

Close-up of weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), weaver ants or rangrang ants, macro weaver ants in a green foliage© Faisal.k/Shutterstock.com Scientists have discovered a spider species deep in the ...