Are giant sinkholes in China's karst mountains havens or traps for the rare plants that inhabit them? A new study finds they ...

The mysterious origin of lightning was finally uncovered through an ingenious laboratory experiment, revealing the ...

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Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this ...

A tiny Australian spider has been found using a silk-powered catapult trap to fling aggressive green tree ants into its web. The discovery reveals one of nature’s most specialised and mechanical ...

Pity the poor fly that lands on a Venus flytrap. When the insect touches hair-like structures on this remarkable carnivorous plant, its trap snaps shut, dooming the victim to be digested over several ...

A study, published this week in the journal Current Biology, describes how the tiny arachnid builds a cone-shaped snare to catapult green tree ants into its web, earning it the nickname “ballista ...

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 ...