00:00Spider-Man shoots webs, but this real spider built something even crazier.
00:04Deep in northern Australia lives a newly discovered spider with an unbelievable hunting weapon.
00:10Instead of simply waiting in a web, it builds a spring-loaded cone of silk.
00:16When a green tree ant bites the sticky silk, its jaw gets trapped.
00:21Then suddenly, snap!
00:23The silk catapult fires, launching the ant almost a foot into the air and straight into the spider's web.
00:32The launch happens in about 42 milliseconds, and the ant experiences around 140 times the force of gravity.
00:40Gram for gram, this may be the most powerful biological catapult ever discovered.
00:45Nature basically invented its own medieval weapon.
00:48Would you call this spider terrifying? Or genius?
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