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

In March 1945, Hitler sent his last major armored reserve into Hungary to seize the oil fields near Lake Balaton. The SS ...

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

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

San Diego County and the California Department of Food and Agriculture have expanded a quarantine zone after the Mexican ...

By Claudia Geib The rainforests of the Congo Basin are the planet’s largest forested carbon sink: as these 3.3 million square ...

This is a 25-year-old crape myrtle. I have 20 to 25 crape myrtles in my yard and this is the only one that has this condition ...

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

Lithia Springs Park in Lithia, Florida delivers that tropical paradise experience without the hassle of international travel, and most people living right here in the Sunshine State have absolutely no ...

As moths get the Royal Mail stamp of approval, we celebrate the ten special species they’ve chosen to spotlight.

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