Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close-up of weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), weaver ants or rangrang ants, macro weaver ants in a green foliage© ...

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 ...

In March 1945, Hitler sent his last major armored reserve into Hungary to seize the oil fields near Lake Balaton. The SS Panzer divisions attacked under strict secrecy, but Soviet intelligence was ...

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 ...