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

Instead of waiting for prey to stumble into its web, it uses a spring-loaded trap to launch ants into it. The spider was ...

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Lead researcher Professor Ajay Narendra said the trap may even be chemically baited.

Building these strong yet ephemeral traps is a process that follows patterns shared among spider species. But is there room for individual variation that makes one species' web — or one individual ...

A new species of venomous spider, the Chilean recluse spider, scientifically known as Loxosceles laeta, has been discovered ...

Five years after Fr Stan Swamy’s death, the struggle of the Adivasis in Jharkhand continues. His role in the Pathalgadi movement is important to understand the ongoing tribal struggles against land ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So ...

The Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare that is set off by ants of one species only. The power is in the ...

In ecology, the principle holds that the more diverse and heterogeneous a habitat is, the more different species it supports.

Spider venoms contain ingredients that could lead to a new treatment to protect honeybees from the deadly Varroa destructor ...