Researchers have documented a newly recognised spider that uses a spring-powered silk snare to catch the aggressive green tree ant Oecophylla smaragdina. The ant bites what looks like a small silk ...

Early automobile on Bancroft Drive in Spring Valley, looking northeast with San Miguel Mountain in the background, in 1915. A row of trees is just seen in the far left of the photo, next to the road.

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 ...