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Aranha cria bizarra armadilha mortal que lança presa em direção à teia

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By Mindy Weisberger Verified
| CNN Brasil Verified
Quando a maioria das aranhas que produzem seda caçam, elas constroem uma teia e aguardam que a presa caia nela por acidente. Mas uma espécie recém-descoberta na Austrália usa sua seda para criar uma armadilha mortal em forma de cone com mola, que arremessa a presa em direção à teia principal da aranha. Uma formiga forrageadora morde a base da armadilha, então os fios de seda se soltam e a estrutura lança a formiga para cima.
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Watch the first-ever video of a newfound spider’s spring-loaded death trap

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By Mindy Weisberger Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Mindy Weisberger, CNN Tue, June 23, 2026 at 1:50 PM UTC 6 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly discovered species from Australia instead uses its silk to craft a spring-loaded, cone-shaped death trap, which catapults its prey into the spider's main web.
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Diagnostic dilemma: Woman's infertility may have been caused by rare semen allergy

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By Mindy Weisberger Verified
| Inkl
3D illustration of sperm. The patient: A 29-year-old woman in Lithuania The symptoms: The woman had been trying to conceive with her male partner but had not become pregnant. Two rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF) also failed to produce a pregnancy, but gynecological exams did not find any underlying causes for why she was unable to become pregnant.
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