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Topic: spiders

An Australian trapdoor spider, a ground-dwelling relative of the newly described species

Tuesday, 6/23, 01:14 PM

An Australian spider builds a silk catapult that hurls ants to their doom

Scientists working in a far-north Queensland rainforest have described a tiny spider that engineers a spring-loaded silk snare, triggered by its prey, to launch aggressive green tree ants into a waiting net — a feat researchers say ranks among the most powerful biological catapults known.

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