Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

4 comments

• Foskya 51 minutes ago
  It is truly fascinating, I wonder how it evolved like that. Before becoming a spring as it is today how was it hunting in the past? What constraints made it need such a mechanism instead of a typical web?
• kiproping 8 minutes ago
  The videos are amazing. Sadly I think theses types of adaptations make it easier for the species to go extinct since its so highly specialized.
• matheusmoreira 1 hour ago
  I wonder why biological organisms are capable of such absurdly high accelerations. Article reminded me of cnidocytes which apparently produce anywhere between 40,000 and 5,410,000 g. Is it because of the small masses involved?
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  • ajuc 59 minutes ago
    Strength of fibers scales with crossection area, mass scales with volume.
• pvaldes 33 minutes ago
  link to the paper here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635929