Ajay Narendra

“The spiders are part of the Propostira genus of spiders. They're new to Australia, and professor Narendra says these mavericks have never been seen hunting like this before.”

“The best analogy we could think of was the medieval Roman weapon, which is the ballist. And we said, let's call it the ballista spider.”

“It takes about three to four hours for it to build an entire web high up from the ground.”

“The acceleration at which the ant gets propelled is about 1,360 meters per second squared. That's equal to about 140 G's.”