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WHO member states kicked off one more attempt at finalizing the missing piece of the pandemic treaty on Monday, with the Ebola outbreak injecting a fresh sense of urgency. Wealthy countries and ...

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It’s very unusual for a spider to feed on ants, because they’re notoriously dangerous, and even more bizarre to find a spider that eats only one particular ant species,” said Professor Narendra. “Ants ...

Flung prey can reach speeds of up to 14.4 feet per second, or a little less than ten miles per hour. An insect will land in ...

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 ...

A newly identified Australian spider uses a spring-loaded silk snare to hurl green tree ants into its web at accelerations of 140 G, a study in Current Biology finds.

A new spider species has been discovered in the rainforests of north Queensland that is capable of weaving powerful spring-like snares that trap and launch prey at an astonishing speed. The ...

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Pity the poor fly that lands on a Venus flytrap. When the insect touches hair-like structures on this ​remarkable carnivorous ...