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Australian 'Ballista' Spider Launches Green Tree Ants With Spring-Loaded Silk Trap

Field videos with lab analyses show the trap stores elastic energy that releases in milliseconds to fling ants into the spider’s web suggesting a rare link between extreme biomechanics and prey specialization.

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New Walking Shark Species Identified Off Papua New Guinea

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Scientists Name Labrujasuchus expectatus, a Two‑Legged, Beaked Croc Relative from Ghost Ranch

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Tiny Spanish Dinosaur Foskeia Pelendonum Formally Described, Recasting Parts of the Ornithischian Family Tree

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6mo ago

JWST Reveals Nine Distant ‘Platypus’ Galaxies With Star-Like Profiles and Galaxy-Like Spectra

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7mo ago

Global Species Discovery Accelerates, University of Arizona Study Finds

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7mo ago

New Pumpkin Toadlet From Brazil’s Serra do Quiriri Is Formally Described

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8mo ago

New Middle Triassic Crocodile-Line Predator, Tainrakuasuchus bellator, Described From Brazil

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9mo ago

Egypt Fossils Identify Oldest Dyrosaurid, Point to African Origins

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10mo ago

Eurhinosaurus Mistelgauensis: New Ichthyosaur Species Described From Bavaria

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Tiny Montana Crocodyliform With Unusual Teeth Named Thikarisuchus in Study Proposing New Family

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Scientists Name Three New Abyssal Snailfishes Off California

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Oldest Known Lepidosaur From 242 Million Years Ago Recasts Early Lizard Evolution

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11mo ago

IUCN Formally Splits Giraffes Into Four Species, Recasting Conservation Priorities

Taxonomy

Australian 'Ballista' Spider Launches Green Tree Ants With Spring-Loaded Silk Trap

New Walking Shark Species Identified Off Papua New Guinea

Scientists Name Labrujasuchus expectatus, a Two‑Legged, Beaked Croc Relative from Ghost Ranch

Scientists Name New Tiny Blue Octopus From the Galápagos

Researchers Describe Tiny 'Sesame' Sea Slug From Northern Taiwan

Deep-Sea ‘Golden Orb’ Identified as Cuticle From Relicanthus daphneae

New Venomous Pitviper Identified in China’s Giant Panda National Park

Chinese Fossil Trove Pushes Complex Animal Origins Into the Ediacaran

Oldest Chelicerate Fossil Dates to 500 Million Years Ago

Tiny Spanish Dinosaur Foskeia Pelendonum Formally Described, Recasting Parts of the Ornithischian Family Tree

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JWST Reveals Nine Distant ‘Platypus’ Galaxies With Star-Like Profiles and Galaxy-Like Spectra

Global Species Discovery Accelerates, University of Arizona Study Finds

New Pumpkin Toadlet From Brazil’s Serra do Quiriri Is Formally Described

New Middle Triassic Crocodile-Line Predator, Tainrakuasuchus bellator, Described From Brazil

Egypt Fossils Identify Oldest Dyrosaurid, Point to African Origins

Eurhinosaurus Mistelgauensis: New Ichthyosaur Species Described From Bavaria

Tiny Montana Crocodyliform With Unusual Teeth Named Thikarisuchus in Study Proposing New Family

Scientists Name Three New Abyssal Snailfishes Off California

Oldest Known Lepidosaur From 242 Million Years Ago Recasts Early Lizard Evolution

IUCN Formally Splits Giraffes Into Four Species, Recasting Conservation Priorities

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