Peter Parker's ingenious invention is more than gadgetry—it's central to what makes Spider-Man a genius hero.

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

Scientists just found a spider that hunts by catapult.

In China, the arachnids seem to somehow manipulate the flashing of a caught male firefly to resemble a female’s come-hither signal. Once this spider gets a firefly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is thought to be the world's largest-known spider's web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a ...