A newly discovered spider uses an ingenious method to launch its prey into the air, named after an ancient Roman weapon. The ballista spider was discovered in the rainforests of Far North Queensland.

The spider has been nicknamed the "ballista" for the speed and force with which it flings prey into its web A new species of spider which weaves a catapult-like silk trap to snare a single type of ant ...

Ajay Narendra, Pranav Joshi, Daniele Liprandi, Gregory J Anderson, Jonas Wolff, CC BY There’s more than one way a spider can spin its web. Some construct large vertical orb webs, while others build ...

If you were to create a Mount Rushmore of superheroes based exclusively on their cultural impacts, it would, earnestly, probably lean pretty hard in DC Comics’ favor. Two of the spots would ...

The endlessly exploitable Spider-Man is back in “Spider-Noir,” a retro tale set in a recognizable New York in an inconsistent 1933 (to judge by a preponderance of cultural referents). There is a comic ...

The new Spider-series stars Nicolas Cage as a hard-boiled investigator and former web slinger. It comes in both black-and-white and color versions. By Esther Zuckerman See more of our coverage in your ...

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(L-R) Justin K. Thompson, 2023's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Bob-Persichetti Sony Animation / Sony Pictures Releasing / Marvel Entertainment / Courtesy Everett Collection EXCLUSIVE: The ...

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Sydney — With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world's most poisonous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save ...

Spider-Man (Shameik Moore), Spider-Woman (Hailee Steinfeld), and all of their amazing Spider-friends are set to team up for what could be their last adventure with Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, ...