A newly-discovered spider uses a unique, "spring-loaded" web trap to snatch its prey from a safe distance! A mysterious hum has plagued the Earth for 50 years. Scientists may have finally found its ...

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.

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 ...