7 snakes that hunt birds in trees: How tree-living predators use stealth, camouflage, and speed to catch prey

High up from the forest floor, birds flit from limb to limb and weave their homes from leafy foliage, seemingly safe from ...

Can a Bat Catch Prey on a Mirror? A Bat’s Expert Foraging Skills Revealed Using a Robot

Researchers Demonstrate the First Plausible Mechanism for the Acoustic Mirroring Effect in Tropical Bats Scientists built a ...
Discover Wildlife

Its body might be a tiny 1cm, but that doesn't stop this deadly predator kill prey up to a metre long and an enormous 355 times its weight

A review back in 2021 documented cases of spiders preying on snakes, turning up 319 reports from every continent except ...
Discover Wildlife

"It dies, roasted alive" – Meet nature’s 10 strangest killers that weaponise fire, wind and heat to kill

These ‘bubble bullets’ are louder than an underwater gunshot and hotter than lava. The immense heat and pressure also produce ...
Phys.org

Tiny bat uses a lion-like strategy to save energy and capture large prey with surprising success

A new international study led by researchers from Aarhus University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that small bats can be just as efficient predators as lions—and often ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Small Spiders With Big Appetites Use a Pulley System to Catch Large Prey

Tangle-web spiders can catch prey up to 50 times their size thanks to their pulley system-like hunting strategy. Photo by Emanuele Olivetti It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie. A hapless ...
UPI

Study shows spiders using fireflies as bait to draw prey

Aug. 28 (UPI) --Ecologists saw nocturnal spiders attracting prey with their web by using fireflies as bait, according to a new study. Tunghai University researchers observed Psechrus Clavis a sheet ...