Sadly we have yet to discover their more powerful relative, the Trebuchet Spider

Fuck yeah another awesome Australian spider!

Those green ants are tasty too, you can eat the abdomen for a nice citrusy snack.

Mosquito: “BZZZZZ ò-ó”

Spider: “GET YEETETH, THINE UNSPEAKABLE PRAY”

Nope. Nope. NOPE!

Super cool.

How the fuck does evolution begin to explain the process of spiders various techniques.

Some of them make sense.

Trapdoor spiders.

Tarantula.

Huntsman.

Then you got spiders which position themselves on a branch above their target, and slip down a rope Mission Impossible style.

Other spiders curl up into a ball and let the wind carry them to safety if something goes wrong.

And now this shit.

Why's the video only in slow motion? Tells us very little. First show full speed, then slow motion, then full speed again (you fucks).

Get Fulton'd stupid

Holy cow! That's both super impressive and interesting and gives me mad heebie jeebies! Thanks for sharing with us. :)

I didn't get any sleep last night so it might just be my wonky brain but isn't "at 140x the force of gravity" an incredibly weird and wrong way to say it? They're talking about G forces, which are specific to earth gravity, so its 140Gs. "140 times the force of gravity" means nothing, it's like saying "it's 100 times heavier than mass".

A catapult, a ballista, a trebuchet, they're real sloppy with their siege weaponry.

To quote a famous Vulcan: Fascinating!

"Parry this you filthy casual!"

The paper itself has a really well put together video explaining the situation. It also has a real-time shot of the ant being slung upwards very fast.

Thanks for the link.

Why am I not surprised such a creature was found in Australia of all places?

It's trebuchet

So wait why does the ant bite the spider web? Are the like ah fuck spider webs better get rid of this junk.

This article has a longer video.